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On Lenny’s Podcast
One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny's Newsletter, probably best known for its writing on growth and product management, which really means it covered everything you need to create a great company. It expanded into a really well-done podcast; Lenny has always had a knack for finding the best guests and asking the best questions, so when he invited me on I was very excited.
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WordCamp Asia and Kumbh Mela
It's been fantastic being in the Philippines for this year's WordCamp Asia. We have attendees from 71 countries, over 1,800 tickets sold, and contributor day had over 700 people! It's an interesting contrast to US and EU WordCamps as well in that the audience is definitely a lot younger, and there's very little interest in "wpdrama" du jour, in fact I've had tons of amazing conversations of support and talking about the strength and growth…
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Sun and shadows
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In high school when 5% of your class doesn’t like you it’s like 3-5 people.
Running a company of 1,700+ when 5% doesn’t like you, that’s 85 people! That fills a room.
150k followers and 5% don’t like you now you have a small stadium of 7,500 people.
It’s still 5%.
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Hash tables
“You didn’t just come up with a cool hash table,” he remembers telling Krapivin. “You’ve actually completely wiped out a 40-year-old conjecture!” There's a delightful article on an undergraduate discovering an optimization in a very basic computer science principle.
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Ed Catmull on Change
I've been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me by my colleague Dave Martin a while back and I finally got around to it. There's an interesting story in it where George Lucas has asked him to develop a film editing system that was digital. While George wanted this new video-editing system in place, the film editors at Lucusfilm did not.
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On Logan Bartlett Show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZaQmFQswm4 https://ma.tt/2025/02/logan-bartlett/
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My First Million http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onaLfllSBvw https://ma.tt/2025/02/my-first-million/
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Boom & Deepseek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qisIViAHwI https://ma.tt/2025/01/boom-deepseek/
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What’s in My Bag, 2025
It's another year, I have ordered all the things and tested all the cables, there's a little bit about tech and a little bit about life. Here's what made the cut, now I'm going to be factoring in weight of everything as well. The flat-lay this year was taken at my sister Charleen's house, where she hosted Christmas for our family for the very first time.
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Matt 4.1
Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn't feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big eclipse thing that ended up amazing, this year I'm replicating what I did a few years ago and celebrating in New York, Houston, and San Francisco. My birthday today has already been lovely. Saw the amazing Broadway show Maybe Happy Ending…
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I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect time as Automattic is re-focusing its work while the legal stuff is going on.
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@skc It started because WP Engine was abusing the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks in a way that was confusing to customers around the world.
If you ignore that, you're missing the entire point.
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Studio Sync
WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz. Studio is our free and open source app for local WordPress development, enabling you to spin up unlimited WordPress sites on your personal computer. Through its newest feature, Studio Sync, you have complete freedom to: Connect your Studio site to and from a
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Inc Hit Piece
When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a feature piece I was excited because though Inc wasn't a magazine I have read much since I was a teenager, David seemed like a legit journalist who usually writes for better publications like The Atlantic. I opened up to David with a number of vulnerable stories, and allowed the photo shoot in my home in Houston.
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The talented Felix Arntz has given an incredible Christmas gift to the WordPress community with his fast, light, and accessible Snow Fall plugin, which is live on this site and you can install on yours. I hope everyone is having a happy holidays! Search for “snow fall” in your plugin dashboard and install his version, make your site cozy for the holidays.
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State of the Word Tokyo
It's a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We're going to be in an amazing venue that looks over the city. Most of WordPress and Automattic's senior leadership is here, and we'll also have several hundred folks from the local community and press. We've gotten so much inspiration over the years from Japanese culture, we wanted to make this event really "of the space" so we're doing a few extra things this year.
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UH Magazine, Revisting My Alma Mater
My father attended University of Houston, and it's where I went to college to study political science, I started WordPress when there, and then dropped out after two years to move to San Franisco. It was fun seeing UH Magazine feature an article about my journey from a University of Houston student to co-founding WordPress and leading Automattic. I was surprised they put me on the cover of the physical edition!
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DrupalCon Singapore
This week, DrupalCon Singapore is bringing together an incredible community of Drupal platform creators, developers, and supporters. Last year, I had the chance to share the stage with Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, and the conversation stuck with me. It highlighted the profound impact we can have when communities like ours come together to push the boundaries of Open Source and shape the future of the web.
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Very excited to share that we’ve acquired WPAI and the team is joining Automattic.
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