WordPress Drama: From the Sidelines
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Yeah … the inside track of WordPress is a mess right now. I’m sure we all have opinions, so I figured I should log mine in as well.
Business
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WordPress, Hosts, and Hosting
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After nearly a decade out of WordPress, I visited WordCamp US and met with several hosts. TLDR: the state of WordPress hosting is stale.
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Customer Focus: Acquisition vs Retention
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Attempting to log into Hulu reveals a customer focus on sales, not on maintaining relationships with active, paying customers.
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Hiring and risk
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Almost daily now I see posts on LinkedIn complaining about the length of corporate hiring and interview processes. If Elon Musk can buy Twitter in 10 days, you can hire a candidate in less than a month. Chris Abbass Sentiment like this is legion. I admit that, with many pipelines, processes can be burdensome, drawn-out,
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You are not your customer
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When you start a company and come up with a name, whether or not you like the name doesn’t matter. You are not the customer.
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Radical candor
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Performance reviews can be both a celebratory reflection on the last period of time and a chance to set expectations for the period to come.
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Communication, focus, and tone
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Tomorrow is guaranteed to no one. I remain steadfast in my focus on writing, but also recognize the world is far bigger than me.
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Types of time
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What activities do you perform that lead directly to dollars in the bank? If you doubled your focus there, would it double your income?
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One perspective on career stages
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Different people see career progression from their own angles. I’ve encountered one that makes sense, tho I don’t so much see it as a progression.
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Technology cost analysis
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Cost analysis can be a tricky exercise in the technology space as not all costs are readily apparent during price shopping.