I ran the WWWP5k this morning and there’s still time for you to sign up! Wait, how does that work? Any time between Monday, September 19th to Sunday, September 25th, travel a 5k anyway you’d like. Walk along the beach. Run on your treadmill. Jog with your dog. Hike in the woods. Once you’ve done your 5k, post […]
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Automattic Company Photo 2015
Love that I’m in the photo this year! I’ve been staring at the 2014 photo with longing ever since I was on trial. By the way, we’re always hiring.
Playing Magic: The Gathering over the course of the Grand Meetup was a lot of fun. While I had a losing record (5-8,) I was second in number-of-games-played, which was my true objective. We had 31 players with a round robin setup: everyone was to try and play everyone else once, but we all knew we wouldn’t […]
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End of the Meetup
I was wrapping up my trial during last year’s grand meetup. When everyone got back I had a chat with my trial lead, Beckett. Reading the archive of that conversation, I now fully ‘get it.’ The week is exhausting: there’s a lot of building, bonding and learning to be done. But inevitably the automatticians leave fired […]
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Automattic 10th Anniversary Party
(Left to right: Trevor, Tish, Jason, myself, Chad)
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Small Engagement with Big Results
One of the lessons I learned from Susan Cain’s Quiet is that when you find yourself in a social environment outside your comfort zone, you can mitigate it by finding more reasonable avenues of engagement within the same setting. The “deep conversation” in the corner of a crowded dinner party comes to mind. While at the Grand […]
With a walkthrough from scruffian, today I got to deploy code to WordPress.com for the first time. That’s a cool/terrifying/exhilirating experience! I also got this bonus good-feels around breakfast:
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Elements of Air
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One Year at Automattic
It’s my Automa-versary! One year ago I officially became a full-time Happiness Engineer. We can pick our own titles, but I really like this one so I never felt the need to change it. My day-to-day has switched around some over that year, but doing my best to make people happy has always been at […]
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Meetamattician
Last night I had dinner with Matt Mullenweg, Alex Kirk, Dean Royal, Trevor Montgomery, and Sarah Semark. Matt at some point asked if any of us had met each other previously. While a few had met earlier in the Grand Meetup, none of us had met each other before this week. “Good! The script is working,” […]
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