Digital by Default

Tag: Startup

  • myWeek (s4e10)

    10 things I learned in 10 weeks Here is a special edition of #weeknotes to mark my first 10 weeks at mySociety. [01] Things aren’t that different I was pretty nervous about taking this job — excited — but nervous. I have almost exclusively been a public servant one way or another throughout my career and while mySociety is undoubtably…

  • 10 books that made me a better product manager

    That weren’t really about product management I never set out to be a Product Manager. In fact I never even really knew what it was until someone told me I was one. This just a quirk of fate and luckily I loved what I did and having a name for it opened up a world…

  • myWeek (s4e04)

    Four weeks. Doesn’t time fly when you are desperately trying to learn a new role! I remain in the somewhat unusual position (for me) of really enjoying the job — that isn’t to say I haven’t been in that position before but in the past it has snuck up on me and then taken hold after several…

  • [book report] Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons

    http://amzn.to/22u3h9F For a couple of years around 2006 I was desperate to work at a web start-up. Well not desperate enough to leave Bristol but pretty interested in the idea anyway. I read Techcruch and Mashable (when it was still a tech blog) and had dreams of working in a truly Internet-era company and escaping…

  • Launching Product for the People

    Welcome comrades! Product for the People is my new blog that is going to broadly cover product management for the public good — so basically anything I think might be interesting to people who share my professional interests. I am going to try out a number of regularly scheduled, consistent formats amongst my usual meandering posts. To…