Digital by Default

I was recently a ‘guest’ on Dan Hon’s new online event type thing – How People Work…LIVE!. The session is on Youtube – I will never, ever look/listen at that but maybe you will. It was a pretty nerve wracking occasion given some of the folks who attended (at least three of whom I was…

I think sometime this week was 100 working days in this role (if you remove all of my sick days). Usually I’d try and write some kind of retrospective to mark the milestone but honestly this week I’ve been feeling pretty disappointed by the whole experience – even accounting for the health scare (and England…

It is currently still 32℃ in Bristol and I have barely emerged from my dark cave for days (all curtains, blinds, doors and windows closed in my flat.) Since my last weeknote I experienced the Pitbull invasion in Cardiff Saturday while I was there catching up with Laura and checking out the Meeting of Styles…

Not to bury the lede (and in true meme manner) I have some ‘personal news’. I’ll be leaving my role at the National Data Library / Government Digital Service at the end of the summer (September 4th to be precise) and before you ask, no I do not currently have anything lined up. In the…

It is the Summer Solstice apparently so it feels like a good time to reflect on the first half of my 2026. — TL;DR  It has been a bit on the bleak side. — The Good It hasn’t all been bad. I started the year very excited to be back as a ‘real’ Civil Servant…