Speaking

  • Transporter Lock – Star Trek: Prodigy

    Transporter Lock – Star Trek: Prodigy

    …and now for something completely different. My friend Ken Gagne has been co-hosting a podcast about Star Trek for a long time, and invited me aboard for the second season of Star Trek: Prodigy, an animated…

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  • WP Constellations, Episode 5

    WP Constellations, Episode 5

    I appeared on the WP Constellations podcast with my StellarWP colleagues, Michelle Frechette and Jeff Chandler, to talk all things Nexcess, WordPress hosting, and Success-as-a-Service.

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  • This Week in WordPress #261

    This Week in WordPress #261

    I was on This Week in WordPress with my colleagues Christine Clauder and Michelle Frechette. We had some really interesting conversations about onboarding as a new contributor to WordPress, accessibility, SLAPP lawsuits, and collaboration in the…

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Thinking

Reading

  • The workplace fight worth having

    We ask our people to be transparent, tell them that we want a culture where they can feel safe to have struggles and life outside of work. But when real shit goes down, and falls outside…

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  • Marc Andreessen Is Wrong About Everything

    Here’s the bottom line: The techno-optimist tribe gives off the distinct impression of people who have been so ridiculously rich for so long that they’ve just completely lost the plot about how the real world works.…

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  • “Techno-optimism” is a sign of V.C. crisis

    One reason that, three and a half years later, Andreessen is reiterating that “it’s time to build” instead of writing posts called “Here’s What I Built During the Building Time I Previously Announced Was Commencing” is…

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  • Doing Essential Things Makes Time For Everything Else

    I don’t know if this is related or what, but a few years ago I shifted my thinking around time & energy. I noticed that when I thought or said “I don’t have time for this”,…

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Making