Digital by Default

Turns out I didn’t get everything off my chest with the post yesterday about the challenges with recruiting and retaining public service technologists! Again I am avoiding the whole improve the salaries aspect as I think the Centre for British Progress report covers that pretty well but here are five more thoughts on things that…

I remain deeply cynical about much of the hype ~ particularly from our political leaders and Silicon Valley grifters ~ that surrounds GenAI and am worried about the sustainability of it (though this thread from Alex demonstrates what a complicated thing that is to really get your head around.) …but at the recent Product for…

In the dog days of 2024 I set out some ambitions for 2025 and as is my tradition I am just doing a bit of a check-in to see how things are going. My main goal was to make some strides towards improving my health. This has unfortunately been a bit of a mixed bag.…

I have to admit the current AI hype train is causing me some cognitive dissonance. The Council of Jukesies yapping away in my head are raising their voices as we try to decide just what the hell we think about it all. Then I saw this post on Bluesky and it kind of summed things…