Digital by Default

Tag: Digital

  • Weeknotes S3e05

    Writing this a day later than usual as yesterday got away from me a little bit and someone booked a call for 4 which is when I usually take an hour to download the week and write this. Then I went to the pub. So in the tradition of the great writers I studied at…

  • Weeknotes S3e04

    Ending the week feeling unwell and more than a little out of sorts. Trying to unpick how much of the being down in the dumps is related to the illness vs other things is probably a job for another day but needless to say this update should be read in the knowledge I was grumpy…

  • What’s in a name?

    that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet Naming things is hard. The English language is imprecise and often hazy. People can interpret things differently, meanings can change and confusion can reign. I quite like this. There is a growing backlash(?) against the words that pretty much define my career these…

  • A Change of Environment

    So as most people now know my next role is going to be at the Environment Agency. Still #oftheGovernment, as Mr Caplin once wrote, for a while yet at least. I join in about a month — just in time for the Severn Tunnel to close which would have made getting to ONS something of a struggle…

  • Changing the conversations

    For the second summer in a row ‘digital’ in government has become newsworthy not for a massive overspend or service failure but due to shenanigans at the leadership level. It is ‘House of (Punch) Cards’ once again and really not the sort of thing you expect as a civil service geek. I’m not sure I’m…