The option and ability to work when I want has been an amazing employee privilege since joining Automattic. There are a lot of obvious advantages to choosing my own schedule, so I wanted to share what a typical week looks like for me — what better way to do that than to share this week’s […]
It’s been a while! And I just want to reflect on the past 5 weeks since I started with Automattic. It’s been a roller coaster ride with the time moving by so quickly these days. Perhaps, I’m living parallel by the old adage — time flies when you’re having fun.
… is getting SURPRISE welcome packages in the mail! If you can free your time and location, your money is automatically worth 3–10 times as much… Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom […]
I went from an unfulfilling nine-to-five work life to doing something I truly love by helping make the web a better place for more than a billion people each month with the coolest 100% remote tech company on the block — Automattic.
First, the big news. I’ll be joining Automattic as a full-time Happiness Engineer in March! Epic blog post on that soon! To be honest, I’ve already written it, but I’ve been debating whether or not to publish it now or closer to my actual start date. We’ll see…
I use WordPress. I study Japanese. And then one day, such a magnificent revelation came to me when I realized I could do both these things at the same time after having seen this: But, as the title of this article implies, I am here to share my experience of what I have learned while […]
Join Theme of the year goes to bringing people together. Twenty-seventeen has certainly been a year of tremendous personal growth, learning, and connection in regards to WordPress. Earlier this year I had the opportunity to attend WordCamp Kyoto, the first of only two WordCamps held in Japan this year. And just this past weekend, I […]