Digital by Default

There was a time ~ really not that long ago in the grand scheme of things ~ when I used to get up, get a train to another town, then jump on a bus to the office and then spend the day surrounded by colleagues all day. FIVE days a week! EVERY week. For YEARS.…

Definitely getting to that midway point of the year. Summer solstice has come and gone and “summer” has officially started (as has my hayfever). I set out some ambitions for the year at the back end of ‘23. Things have changed since then but → I gave myself a bit of a pep talk regarding…

If I am honest I thought I’d be in a different place professionally by now. I had fantasies that cast me in a kind of civic tech/digital government procedural show where I was some kind of wizened House M.D figure (or more likely the comic relief in an ensemble – Sylvester in Scorpion perhaps) who…

It is not an unconference…you might even call it a…conference! Debbie, Steve and I have now organised five pretty successful Product for the People unconferences (London x2, Cardiff, Manchester and Leeds) and with Bristol booked in for November (28th) and Birmingham potentially in February we started thinking about what else we could do for the…

Coming back to work after two weeks off is always a bit of a struggle for me – it is just enough time to actually shut off and relax but also just enough time to lose the track of what was going on (and what it is you actually do!). Given I was having a…