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.…

I have to admit the current AI hype train is causing me some cognitive dissonance. The Council of Jukesies yapping away in my head are raising their voices as we try to decide just what the hell we think about it all. Then I saw this post on Bluesky and it kind of summed things…

This time last year I was dead set on launching a jobs board spin-off from my newsletter (and Steph did the hard yards in building it) but a combination of my struggles with my health and the TPX gig meant I ended up giving up on that. In my seemingly never ending mission to find…

This is the first time I’ve managed a full year of weeknotes – zero breaks and managed to even keep the week numbers straight so this Boxing Day final edition, as 2024 crawls to a close, it is time to focus on 2025 (doesn’t that sound soooo sci-fi? 2025. Buck Rogers stuff). Like Mike Tyson…

I like to get away in the run up to Christmas – it has become a bit of a tradition in recent years but I don’t really remember why I chose Nashville. It was a bit of a whim and after a week here I’m not entirely sure it was a successful roll of the…