Category: Automattic

My life at Automattic

  • Sleepless in Seattle: A Support Leads Meetup

    Sleepless in Seattle: A Support Leads Meetup

    Only my second work trip since the pandemic, and I was off to the US again – to Seattle for a Support Leeds meetup.

    There was 8 of us in total, so it was a relatively small group and, is often the case when it’s this small, we made use of Airbnbs – a main “house” and a secondary one. I stayed in the secondary one.

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  • Sabbatical Round-up

    Sabbatical Round-up

    My sabbatical is nearly at an end, so I wanted to round-up what I did, what I didn’t and what I learnt from the experience.

    First of all, let’s go through what I planned to do and not do and how that went…

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  • Sabbatical: Week Twelve

    Sabbatical: Week Twelve

    Final week of my sabbatical and, as I write this, the final day – day 90.

    What have I been doing to round up my time?

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  • Sabbatical: Weeks Ten & Eleven

    Sabbatical: Weeks Ten & Eleven

    Surprise! You thought I’d forgotten last week, right?

    No, I was on holiday, so wasn’t able to post.

    So, how did it go and what else have I been up to?

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  • Sabbatical: Week Eight

    Sabbatical: Week Eight

    The first week of the school holidays, which means that my sabbatical is now a different thing entirely. Now, no longer at home, getting jobs around, my time now it spent with the family venturing off places.

    And, although none of this should be any kind of surprise, I kinda didn’t really plan for it.

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