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An Elder

Recently when discussing my role with a colleague I quipped – “I am less a manager and more a village elder at this point”. As you’ll know many a true word is spoken in jest and the more I dwelled on it the more I realised there was a certain kind of truth to it.…
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S01E06: Revolving

I’m pretty wiped out as I write this and I do not have high hopes that it will be very coherent. This week has been a personal record for context switching – I feel like I have mental whiplash. I have planned and presented a pitch. Fronted pretty much an entire Show and Tell. Written…
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I use this..
With apologies to usesthis.com Who are you, and what do you do? I’m Matt ‘jukesie’ Jukes. I am a Principal Consultant with Foundry4 with a focus on agile and product working in the public service. Truth be told though I am mainly know for my jobs newsletter and blogging these days I suspect (and honestly…
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S01E05: Reminisce

I’ve been wallowing in nostalgia this week. It started with a reminder from those Facebook ‘memories’ of my greatest social media moment back when I was at the ONS in 2014. I even got an anonymous mention in a couple of papers off the back of it. It is funny to look back and remember…
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planning a u-kation

One of the things that has helped me get through this bleak 10 months or so has been my long-standing plan to take a bit of a sabbatical later this year and do a little (well a lot) of travelling and some writing. Increasingly though I just don’t think it is going to be possible…