The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.

Dropping the news to my parents that I was skipping my 'dream education' at Chalmers to sit at home recording videos while playing video games was not easy.

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Work appealed to me; school did not. I was a disinterested, bored student.

At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.