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I use the Wayback Machine quite a bit. Here's what WordPress.com looked like way back when we first started working on it. The Wayback Machine is part of the Internet Archive which I got to visit today. They have archived 27 years of web history (along with books, movies, games, and more) and provide free...

Happy Birthday Matt!

Old Car Racing Photos

My niece is scanning old family slides and discovered a stash of cool old car racing photos that my dad must have taken sometime in the 1960s in Switzerland:

A childhood memory, revisited

When I was a little boy in Switzerland, maybe 5 or 6 years old, my dad took me to visit the studio of a well known local artist. Her name was Ursula Schneider (no relation), and I remember being impressed and excited after meeting her. She was a ceramic artist and her studio was called...

Are your remote team members goofing off?

I worked for a distributed company with hundreds of remote workers around the world for 10 years. The question I was consistently asked the most from people outside the company, especially in the beginning: "How do you make sure people are working instead of goofing off at home?" The question was misaligned with my actual...

Popular posts from over the years: - Five Reasons Why Your Company Should Be Distributed: A pitch for why distributed, or remote, teams are great. - The Perfect Startup: Can a large company be as fun as a startup? - When A Company Grows But The Office Shrinks: The story of how Automattic decided to...

Making the internet weird again

Some of these quarantine home videos are delightful and remind me of the early days of the internet when people didn't care so much about looking professional or monetizing their content: https://twitter.com/gnuman1979/status/1239523796542992387 https://twitter.com/MrAndrewCotter/status/1243539675031232519

It's been a while since I've gotten excited by a gadget, but I'm really enjoying these Bose Frames I got a few days ago. They look and feel like regular sunglasses, same weight, nice enough materials, and the feeling of using headphones by simply slipping glasses on and off is surprisingly fun. I find it...

The Perfect Startup

People in startups often talk about how much fun it was during the early days, when everyone was on the same page and things moved quickly. Can the speed and simplicity of that early, perfect-startup moment be retained as companies grow? [caption id="attachment_4988" align="aligncenter" width="439"] Early days at Automattic[/caption] During those early days, a startup...