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Startup
I've just finished raising $1.5 million in investor dollars, building an office and growing a staff to start a new media company focused on narrative podcasts. Okay, not really. But I HAVE just...
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Working for someone else
This week marks two full years of my employment at Automattic. I was fortunate to celebrate in person with a number of my colleagues as we hosted a workshop for our clients and partners in beautiful...
View ArticlePower in a distributed org
It's striking to see the differences in where power gathers in a distributed organization, compared to where that happens in a more traditional office setting. When people come together in a physical...
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After years of various roles in which I've been solely or jointly responsible for hiring people into businesses and organizations, I offer some thoughts on what I think works. Hiring is ultimately...
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On training people
As a follow-up to my post on what I've learned over the years about hiring people, this is a similar list of what I've learned about training and onboarding people as you welcome them into your...
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Building momentum for your distributed work day
Imagine that you are about to go on stage to perform some amazing thing that you know how to do. You're waiting in the wings for your moment to shine, and you want to bring your very best to the...
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Create a story, join a story, tell a story?
As I have been thinking about and working on "what's next" for me professionally, a theme has emerged around storytelling. Despite the fairly technical nature of my work to date, storytelling is a...
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Does your organization need help figuring out remote work?
If your business or organization has been struggling through the unexpected shift to emergency remote/distributed work, and now wants to step back and build a distributed work culture that actually...
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A new venture, WP Lookout
A few months ago I had an idea for a new tool and service that I thought could be useful to WordPress developers and agencies who manage lots of WordPress sites, but who can't or don't want to go all...
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Trust is key to successful distributed work
You can't successfully operate in a distributed/remote work model unless your organization is built on trust. So many teams and companies are wrestling with questions around if and how to continue some...
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