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Recently, I’ve been diving into Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk, which offers insights into his approach to business. Musk’s approach to process improvement isn’t dissimilar from my own. He suggests that if you’re not reintegrating at least 10% of what you cut, you’re not being aggressive enough in your simplification. In my experience managing…
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Automattic faces a cease-and-desist letter over alleged trademark violations concerning WP Fusion Lite. But it really does look like their use could be classified as “fair use.” If not, any WordPress site using the .org repo is also in violation …
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The WordPress.org team has forked the Advanced Custom Fields plugin amidst a legal dispute with WP Engine, raising concerns about user awareness and security updates. Were they right to do so? It’s complicated, but likely yes.
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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.
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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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Attempting to log into Hulu reveals a customer focus on sales, not on maintaining relationships with active, paying customers.
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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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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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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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Tomorrow is guaranteed to no one. I remain steadfast in my focus on writing, but also recognize the world is far bigger than me.