INCIDENTAL COMICS Words and Pictures by Grant Snider Monday, March 2, 2020 Inspired by DELIGHT by J.B. Priestley and THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS by Ross Gay, I'm starting a new series on things that bring me

Mar 5th 2020 TALLINN B Y 1927 PEOPLE began to descend on North-Tammsaare, a farm deep in the Estonian countryside. They asked the farmer, August Hansen, to show them the spot where Juss hanged himself

Mar 5th 2020 BOSTON AND HOUSTON Editor’s note (March 5th 2020): This article has been updated to note that Elizabeth Warren has ended her candidacy. O NLY A FEW days ago the Democratic primary looked

Mar 4th 2020 IN 1920 America granted women the constitutional right to vote. A century on, women still face frustrating barriers to equality. To mark International Women’s Day on March 8th, The Econom

Mar 7th 2020 PENRITH B ENEATH THE junction where Hobgrumble Gill meets Swindale Beck in the Lake District of Cumbria is a suspended valley that has been farmed, against all the odds, for centuries. To

INCIDENTAL COMICS Words and Pictures by Grant Snider Wednesday, March 4, 2020 Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) There Is A Rainbow My Words What Sound Is Morning? I Will Ju

Often, we choose to be selfish because we feel insufficiency. “I don’t have that much, how can I possibly share it?” The insecurity that comes from feeling like our foundation is weak or our future is

If you’re a busy startup founder, you’re likely delegating the task of scheduling key meetings about things you want/need to your admin. This is a mistake. That’s because the dialog you have in settin

Feb 29th 2020 U NTIL ABOUT the third week of January, only a few pharmaceutical executives, drug-safety inspectors and dogged China hawks cared that a large share of the world’s supply of antibiotics

Feb 22nd 2020 THE WORLD’S biggest carnival celebration came to life in Rio de Janeiro on February 21st. The annual festival, traditionally a time to indulge in food, drink and other earthly pleasures

If life is a game, how do you play it? The answer will have a huge impact on your choices, your satisfaction, and how you achieve success. *** James Carse, the Director of Religious Studies at New Yor

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For five hundred years, a fellowship was understood, Tolkien-style, to be a collection of humans engaged in mutual support. [ Definition ] It’s hard to imagine something more reassuring, challenging a

A year and a half ago, I snagged two disposable cameras. I sent one to someone I was getting to know as she embarked on building a new home in Salt Lake City and I kept one for myself as I headed off

(Note: This was written in 2016. I recently — in late 2019 — wrote a post about some things I’ve learned since then .) I’ve used the term Feature Factory at a couple conference talks over the past two

Feb 20th 2020 SEATTLE I N 1990, A year into the journey to Jupiter of an American spacecraft called Galileo , Carl Sagan, a well-known astronomer, turned the probe’s instruments back towards Earth. He

I sat down with Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of WordPress' parent company, Automattic , for an extended interview in March, just ahead of the company's $160 million financing round a month late

This article includes interviews with WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg; management guru Scott Berkun; WordPress historian Siobhan McKeown; early WordPress.org contributor Rich Bowen; and former WordPr

Cate Huston , our illustrious mobile lead here at Automattic, was recently interviewed by GitPrime on how to create momentum while onboarding an engineering new hire. The entire interview is nicely su

This past week, I received an email from someone that was interested in working at Automattic. This person had found me on LinkedIn and asked if he could ask me a few questions. After taking a look at

Remote workers are giving our calcified attitudes about collaboration and office culture a much-needed shake-up. They're just as-- if not more --productive than co-located workers, and enjoy a high le

Feb 15th 2020 PARIS T HE FRENCH foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, is a man of few words and many air miles. When he does comment, it is usually to deplore events in Syria, say, or Iran. But on Feb

Introducing All-in-One Android POS for small businesses and merchant partners Paytm Follow Feb 4 · 3 min read As India continues to take strides towards the digital future with accelerated growth in digital payments, we are proud to launch our All-in-One Android POS device for small businesses and…

Credit: Flickr / Adriane Dizon I spend more time than I thought I would thinking about technical interviews lately, because something I’ve been doing is conducting technical interviews for a few start

How can Automattic consistently hire the best people without ever having a single voice conversation? Let’s face it, hiring is tough. When you ask startup founders what their biggest challenge is, hir

Every year, Automattic comes together in one place to do a company meetup. This year is my fifth time attending our company meetup (called the “Grand Meetup”). During this week, we have the choice of

I’ve been working at Automattic for just over a year now, so thought it would be fitting to reflect on my time here, what with the start of a new year and all. When I was first hired as a JavaScript W

Update Note: Aaqib Hussain updated this tutorial. Matt Luedke wrote the original. Update Note: Aaqib Hussain updated this tutorial. Matt Luedke wrote the original. Beyond your clients and employer, th

Despite this blog’s current domain name (nomad.blog), I’m practicing staying in one place. You’d think this would be an obvious thing to. do since I have had an apartment somewhere in San Diego for mo

Lenny Levine was a great kindergarten teacher. And he ran his class by this one rule. It means that if another kid comes along, you need to include them in your game. That’s it. It changes everything.

Draw a perfect circle. Use a compass or a plotter. Now, zoom in. If you zoom in close enough, you’ll discover that it’s not a perfect circle at all. In fact, anything we create, at close enough magnif

Feb 13th 2020 T HE ORIGINAL title of his haunting new play, Sir Tom Stoppard confides, was “A Family Album”. The name was changed, but the album survives. The curtain rises on an assimilated Jewish ho

Feb 13th 2020 F OR MOST of the century since Ireland gained independence from Britain, control of the country has alternated between two parties. On February 8th that duopoly was smashed apart, when S

When you’re beginning a new engagement, a new job, a new partnership, it might be worth agreeing on a list in advance. You don’t have to include all of these, and you don’t have to agree with them (be