Jon Collins

Jon Collins

Word weaver, tale teller, singer of songs, baker and candlestick maker. Pattern whisperer. Distiller of clarity from complexity. Professional focus on software delivery, with all that enables it.

Bringing IT into the Now

Bringing IT into the Now Is it really nine years since Nicholas Carr published “IT Doesn’t Matter”? Written in the months that followed the bursting of the dot-com bubble, the Harvard Business

Sleeping rough - but not in that way

In about 6 weeks’ time I will be sleeping rough, under the banner of Byte Night. I won’t really be sleeping rough, of course. I will take my old, but functional sleeping

Cleaning lady’s response to Werner Herzog

Cleaning lady’s response to Werner Herzog 24 Apr 2012 The universe. Profound in its enormity. The detailed atomic structure of a particle in the depths of space, simultaneously illustrating both immeasurable breadth

Race report the Paris Marathon

Race report: the Paris Marathon 16 Apr 2012 It must have been the beetroot detox smoothie. After 6 months of what I believed was less than adequate preparation, including a pulled hip muscle