Digital by Default

As part of the talk I am doing at Camp Digital about working (and beyond) in the open I have put together this silly survey to test how well my loyal readers (both of you) know me. Yes this is narcissistic but it is what it is at this point!

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…