Your instincts can only take you so far, so let data take the next step

Alternative title: “What ear wax taught me about being a digital communicator”. Being creative and having lots of different ideas is fantastic. But as a digital communicator this is not the end of your job. You can relentlessly use data and evidence to improve your work and focus in on the best ideas. Or, in …

Advice on learning computer programming

I dived in to learning programming in 2012. If you’re interested in doing the same I’d like to share some of my recommendations with you. For the last year or two there’s been a lot of buzz around efforts to introduce more people to programming. We’ve seen the launch of online platforms like Coursera, Udacity …