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Reciprocation in the Republic of Newsletters
I’ve been doing a bit of thinking recently about my jobs newsletter (again – it happens semi regularly without coming to many/any conclusions). It was always a bit of a niche idea – a regular, curated list of jobs that were kind of digital without being too techy and pretty public service/interest without always being…
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8.1 ..keep the Doctor away

In recent weeks I’ve been struggling a bit with both my anxiety levels spiking and my physical health being pretty rubbish. It has been hard to untangle them. Headaches, insomnia, allergies, stomach pains, weakness. It has been a real buffet of shitiness. The fact that it all triggered around my birthday is – I think…
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Ambitions for 2019 – Q1 results
TL;DR A big fat FAIL so far. The story so far: Haven’t got anywhere with my book and am further away from fitness than ever it feels like. I have managed a night a week without TV and my social media usage is waaaaaayyyyy down (including leaving Facebook) but I have been struggling to write…
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Public Service Internet jobs: 10/03/2019
Internet of Public Service jobs’ is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, user experience, data and design in…you guessed it…the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie every Sunday. Sign up for the weekly email at tinyletter.com/jukesie [01] Service Designer Children’s Society Manchester £33,484 – £37,204 Closing date: 31/03/2019 [02] Policy Lead –…
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The Concierge: SquadOps

In my recent posts about how I see our ‘squad‘ model developing I’ve mentioned this idea about a ‘concierge’ role – or sometimes a dispatcher. Chatting about it with Sophie on Twitter helped clarify some thoughts on my ideas (and introduced the ‘SquadOps’ idea – always good to be on trend eh!) Yeah I liked the…