Tag: automattic
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In the future there will be no work-life balance. There will be only life.
Automattic is no ordinary company. We have no office, no dresscode, live in 60 different countries, and only meet in person a few times per year. No wonder that when we do meet in person, it looks less like a business conference and more like a family reunion, with the most supportive and friendly kind…
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What I learned about Tumblr so far
There’s a lot, and folks on Tumblr should probably know first. Here’s my summary I just posted there.
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Happiness T-shirt
As a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, my job is to make sure people using our software are happy. I never thought working in customer support can be this awesome and rewarding. Our whole company, at about 1000 people now, are all gonna meet in Orlando next week. Last year all Happiness Engineers got this T-shirt…
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Tumblr
My company Automattic just purchased Tumblr, another blogging platform. I wanted to check it out, and discovered I already have an account there I set up a few years ago as my trial homework at Automattic. After playing around with it for an hour, I love it a lot already. Looks like the perfect place…
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What else has to happen before you follow your dreams?
“Don’t forget, you’re going to die.” Yeah, whatever. Of course I am not going to live forever, unless maybe science comes up with something? Like every great truth, it sounds obvious to the point of cliché. And like every great truth it’s no longer banal when it manifests somehow in your own life.
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Don’t forget: you’re going to die – All the awkward shades of Automattic Grand Meetup
Why would anyone want to talk about death? It’s an immensely overwhelming topic, and almost everyone sensibly stays away from it. Unless you were personally affected by death in recent past, you won’t probably want to chat about it, and even then you’ll be extremely careful to do that. Death is an ultimate conversation killer,…
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