Listening to the recent interview Matt Mullenweg did on the Farnham Street Knowledge Project podcast I was struck by something he said about the way he has been encouraged by a coach to be more aware of the way he chooses his words.
2020: A retrospective
Enough has been written about 2020. For my own reference (and a reminder for the future) I wanted to note the things I'm grateful for coming out of 2020.
What to do, what to do…
As we approach 2021, my brain goes to the 'things' I want to do in the coming year. Inevitably I have a range of ideas of projects which would be fun and interesting, but there's no way I can commit to all of them... Some things that I have in mind... Keep up the blogging …
A week in the life of a Happiness Engineer
I've been working at Automattic as a Happiness Engineer on WordPress.com for a little over two years now. The work is varied, and I love it. But the title 'Happiness Engineer' doesn't really explain a lot about what I actually do. I thought it would be good to share what a typical week might look …
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On Blogging
At work we've started a blogging group. (Side note - who remembers BlogRings? Ah the good old days...) Seeing as we create website/blogging software for a living, it seems fitting a group of us should be regularly wine-tasting the product and seeing how it goes. I've just started a new blog about accidentally discovering I'm …
Remembering my Tshirts.
For a long time - I spent a significant amount of money on Tshirts - from bands/concerts especially, but also from other places. Once I wasn't wearing certain shirts any more, I found I had a stockpile of them taking up space. Before passing them on - I decided to take photos of all of …
Growing and Eating Oyster Mushrooms
For my birthday, my sister-in-law gave me a box filled with coffee grind and mushroom spores. All I had to do was cut a hole in it and spray it with water - and we had a harvest of mushrooms within a week. The best part was, of course, the eating. I've never been too …
WordCamp Auckland 2019
Last weekend I headed to New Zealand to attend WordCamp Auckland. WordCamps are community driven conferences focused on people who use, create, and support WordPress. It was a fantastic time - with great talks (check out my notes below), awesome people, and some fabulous food (mostly cooked by the family of the organisers). Everyone was …
Patronus Team Meetup in Seoul
One of the challenges of Automattic being a full-distributed workforce is that we spend most of our time interacting purely in chat form - even with our immediate teammates we spend most of our time with. One of the ways we ensure our teams work well is we spend a week each year together in …
London Grammar – Big Picture
One of my recent parenting victories was to convince the girls that London Grammar make a great 'going to sleep' soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UwYKVJMnLY