October 9th to 15th was baby loss awareness week – an opportunity for people to commemorate the lives of babies who died during pregnancy, at or soon after birth, and in infancy. Here’s our own story of loss and the roller coaster of emotions that comes with it all. I found …
Weeknotes: All about accessibility
This week was a very busy one for me – Scoping the work we need to do in order to meet the accessibility requirement for public sector bodies has shown that there is still quite a lot to do before the deadline so I mostly focused on GOV.UK accessibility this …
Change is constant
This is my first weeknote. Hello! I’m Tobi, Product Manager on GOV.UK. The last week (ending 16/08/2019) has been an interesting one. I started managing a new product so I thought why not start writing weeknotes now? no better time than a new beginning eh? I started working on the publishing …
Good times
It’s amazing how time flies when you are having fun eh? The past 6 weeks have been amazing. Shortly after I posted about the need to make my own luck, I got a job, the type of Job I wanted. It happened pretty fast too, I had one interview and got …
Stuff nobody tells you
I have wanted to write about Sex for a while, from a different perspective. This is not a post about having sex or not, It is about the lack of sex related discussion before marriage. In (African) Christian communities, Sex is hardly talked about with ‘before marriage’ folks, except that …
The thing about open doors
I first read about the human tendency to keep doors(options) open and how distracting this is in a book I read last year — Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational. We like to have options, it’s natural to us. Sometimes, we go out of our way to find said options. Humans do this …
Friends… or not
Today, Mr T asked me a question, a seemingly simple one. How many friends do you have? Not acquittances or work friends or people you are close to on a superficial level but people you have deep relationships with, those friends that you know what’s actually going on in their …
Make your own luck
Recently, I have been very whiny. Why? Well, It’s this darn job search. It’s been almost 3 months since I relocated to London and I have lost almost all my motivation. I have applied for lots of jobs, I have gotten a few feedbacks, I have gone for a few …