Digital by Default

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)…

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…

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…

Like the venerable Ms Swift I think of my professional life in terms of eras. Seriously – stick with me.  Some of the more notable ones for me are the ‘Polar Bear’ period, the ‘Here Comes Everybody’ time and the, actually most successful, ‘National Embarrassment’ days. This current period though I have come to think…