Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Week 02/52

I really am enjoying the honeymoon period of this new job. Day by day I can feel the rust getting shaken off – not just from the sabbatical but also shaking off some of those consultant perspectives and letting my public servant instincts reassert themselves. It is an interesting time to join this organisation –…

April 1, 2022
Week 01/52

So I am back. 210 days later I fired up my new Windows laptop, opened Teams, waited for the fan to calm down and dived back in. My start was delayed a week by a particularly nasty bout of Covid which I suspect has made this re-entry a bit tougher physically but mentally I’ve really…

March 25, 2022
Call it a comeback

Spring has sprung and I have crawled out of my cave after my hibernation, stretched, squinted at the sun, taken a deep breath and decided I am ready to face the world again. My sabbatical lasted a little longer than planned due to reasons but actually that extra time and the issues that caused it…

March 5, 2022
Four years later #jobnote

Four years in one place is a long time for me – even if six months of this was on a career break (one where I was almost always intending to return at the end of things). This is mainly a reminiscence about the tent-pole projects during my time with Notbinary/Foundry4. Alongside this work there…

February 13, 2022
[book report] The agile comms handbook

I know Giles (the author) reasonably well. We’ve had a few beers together over the years, worked together a little, popped up at the same events and know – and respect – a lot of the same folk. Additionally his work – particularly his blogging and the work he did at Defra that he references…

October 11, 2021