Sometimes I test stuff at work by making things up. Right now at Urb-it, this means pretending to deliver imaginary parcels to made-up addresses, and taking proof-of-delivery photos. Or pretending to fail at delivering them and making up reasons for why I failed.

At my previous assignment at a specialist insurance company, I was making up details insurance cases for mobile phones – imaginary scenarios detailing exactly how my imaginary phone happened to get run over by a car, or damaged by water, or stolen.

I could just do the minimum necessary – always use the same options, or always point my phone’s camera at whatever is in front of me – but after 20 rounds or so it gets rather boring. It’s more fun to have fun with it. So I take photos of random objects around my home office.