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Farewell, Automattic!

Farewell, Automattic!

On April 3, 2013, I was sitting in the #devmke Freenode IRC channel talking to other developers in the Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA) area. I saw a conversation about one of the people working from home and thought, what an incredible place this must be to work! For some reason, I

Ninety days of getting paid to not work

Yesterday began day one of 90 that I'll be taking as a sabbatical from work. Every five years at Automattic we're given an awesome gift of a paid sabbatical - something I've never dreamt possible in our current age. The word "sabbatical"

My Two Favorite Logos

Here is a photo of my two favorite logos - the Jetpack logo and the That Conference logo. Jetpack is a plugin you can install on your WordPress site to give it super powers that WordPress.com sites have but still self-hosted on your own servers. That Conference is an

This is what 400 Automatticians in one place looks like from a drone

This is what 400 Automatticians in one place looks like from a drone

Watch the drone video below taken at our annual Grand Meetup in Park City, Utah October 2015: https://videopress.com/v/MYKeey35 https://automattic.com/work-with-us/

Tater Tots Through Time

Every year at the Automattic Grand Meetup the entire company gets together in one place for a little over a week to work and have fun. Part of that meetup requires everyone to give a four minute flash talk on any subject. This year my coworker Carolyn Sonnek and I

WordPress.com Supports (RED).org

I'm proud to say that Automattic / WordPress.com is a supporter of RED.org - the foundation started by Bono and Bonny Shriver to help prevent and cure AIDS. Red.org recently moved over to WordPress.com VIP hosting and we partnered with them on producing an official

The Compression of 400 Teammates

The Compression of 400 Teammates

I work for Automattic, a 100% distributed company. We rely upon meetups with our teammates to power the social aspect of our jobs and to work on short-duration high-velocity projects. Every year we also partake in a Grand Meetup where everyone gets together in one place to work and socialize.

2014 Automattic Grand Meetup

At Automattic we all are a distributed workforce - we all work from all over the world. Every few months we meet up with our teammates and work on projects designed to be started and finished within the week. Once a year the entire company gets together in one place

Tokyo Mobile Meetup January 2014

In January 2014, the Mobile Team at Automattic met in Tokyo Japan for our quarterly face to face meetup. Here are some of the pictures I took from the meetup. It was a great experience and I would definitely go back to Japan!

Working at Automattic

Some people have asked me what it's like working for Automattic. Every employee of Automattic has a different perspective on what it means to work here. Here are a few things I feel are important to me. Work Wherever, Whenever Automattic is a completely distributed company. We have

Paying Attention at Automattic

All of my teen and adult life I realized that I perceive the world a little differently than most. I’d like to think I’m a smart guy but I never did very well in high school on exams especially for topics that weren’t science/math/computer related.