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[2025] Half-time
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Well we’ve made it to half way through 2025 and despite the best efforts of the universe we are still here…though if it gets much warmer in my flat I might expire soon. The last few months have been pretty good. I continue to be doing a solid job of keeping my blood sugar under…
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[Make things open] Beyond blogging
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My recent focus on working in the open has very much been on my personal journey and, as such, primarily blogging with a bit of text based social media action. For the most part though what people practically want is advice on how to get started and what other options are there to be more…
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What’s next?

It is Saturday afternoon a couple of days after my talk at Camp Digital and now the Lions game is no longer distracting me, honestly, I am feeling a bit bereft. A not inconsiderable part of my brain has been grinding away at that talk for months…and before that I was preoccupied with my (related)…
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The Aftermath

So it is the morning after the day before. A solid six months of overthinking, anxiety dreams, second guessing and rewriting culminated in a talk that was over in the blink of an eye (but somehow still overran!). As I write this (in my hotel room at 07.48) I am feeling pretty good about the…
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[Make things open] Talk at Camp Digital 2025
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This is the the unabridged version of the script for my Camp Digital talk in Manchester on 03/07/2025 – including all the stuff I had to cut to keep to time! The slides are here. The Power, Peril and Privilege of Working in the Open This was all an accident. Honestly this whole thing was…