Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Umbrellas

Eleanor has written this really great post on the problem with being a ‘shit umbrella’. There is a lot in there I recognise from an earlier version of myself – I definitely went through a stage of being both paternalistic and a bit of a martyr (though I did have my own umbrella!) but with…

February 2, 2020
January 2020

Today marks the end of my second year with Notbinary. Let us just call that the year of the ‘difficult second album’. I won’t dwell but it wasn’t great. I struggled for long stretches and failed horribly as ‘co-CEO’. I learned a lot but I’m not sure the lessons were worth the headaches and sleepless…

January 31, 2020
Talkin’ loud, saying something

“..knowledge only travels when it’s interesting and memorable enough for someone to retell your story.” Sam Villis Not for the first time Sam nails it. I was sorry to miss her session at Govcamp last weekend (I was probably gossiping in the corridor as per..) but she wrote up her workshop in beautiful detail. The…

January 26, 2020
A few of my favourite things (2019)

Netflix of 2019 Sex Education: Season 1 – this show was bite my knuckles funny throughout – it also freaked me out as the location was my university campus! The slight weirdness about trying to place it in time / location was actually a worthy eccentricity in the end. Top Boy – at times…

December 14, 2019
November

November was mainly about putting myself back together again after I broke in October. This remains a work in progress to be honest but fingers crossed! I took two full weeks off and stayed off of work email and Slack for the entire time. This really helped and is probably the first time I’ve ever…

November 30, 2019