Digital by Default

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…

Uuurrrggghhh. This week has been a blur as a six hour time difference seems to be the sheeeeeeeit spot for me and jet lag. It feels like my brain has just caught up with my body after getting delayed somewhere over the Atlantic. I didn’t actually get home until Tuesday afternoon – the flight was…