Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Managing from a distance

100 plus days into COVID-19 restrictions and I can confirm I still don’t like working from home. I have no desire of returning to the pre-March status quo – instead I dream of an workspace like the Campaign Monitors space I have lusted over for a decade or even that of Fog Creek from even…

June 22, 2020
Five years of #jukesiejobs

One Sunday in June 2015 I started tweeting links to jobs that I had spotted that week that I thought were interesting, were related to public service in some way and were ‘digital’. I didn’t have much of a plan but people seemed to like it and I was preoccupied with the problem of getting…

June 15, 2020
10 weeks note

This is my 10th weekend of essentially self-isolating. I mean to some extent I am always self-isolating. I mean I live alone and am not the most social person but between work, family and my close friends I usually occasionally see a few people in person! Since I got back from Oslo on March 13th…

May 24, 2020
How do you build a ‘community of practice’ without a ‘community’ that practices?

I’m really asking. community /kəˈmjuːnɪti/ noun a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. Not for the first time I find myself in a role where part of my responsibility is to support the development of some folk who are relatively early stage in their product and…

May 21, 2020
Let’s call it COVID’s cousin

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” “If you get sick during a pandemic and no one is around to test it, is it really COVID?” I don’t know whether what I have had is COVID-19. What I do know that in a…

May 17, 2020