In quite the coincidence given my recent rants/posts about improving recruitment of digital roles in public service – which included some pointed jabs at Civil Service Jobs (CSJ) – this week they opened up their new Beta version of the site for feedback (and also started hiring for a Senior Service Designer). The Beta has…

Turns out I didn’t get everything off my chest with the post yesterday about the challenges with recruiting and retaining public service technologists! Again I am avoiding the whole improve the salaries aspect as I think the Centre for British Progress report covers that pretty well but here are five more thoughts on things that…

I remain deeply cynical about much of the hype ~ particularly from our political leaders and Silicon Valley grifters ~ that surrounds GenAI and am worried about the sustainability of it (though this thread from Alex demonstrates what a complicated thing that is to really get your head around.) …but at the recent Product for…

In the dog days of 2024 I set out some ambitions for 2025 and as is my tradition I am just doing a bit of a check-in to see how things are going. My main goal was to make some strides towards improving my health. This has unfortunately been a bit of a mixed bag.…