The Enchanting Cyprus
This is always a fascinating time. Get together with my teammates, collaborate in person, and play board games. Work hard and play harder XD This was the first team meetup that was just the 8 of us (we have been to a Division meetup together-…
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Prague days 2 and 3
Wednesday started with Damianne and me heading to a co-working space to meet with Jirka. It was the first time I tried WeWork. It works very similarly to FlexDay, only it has options all over the world and not just in Canada. You download the…
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From Prague with Love
I remember, back in 2016, sitting by the river Thames looking over the tower bridge in London and thinking about the people who live there, surrounded by all that history, all those monuments, and they don’t really care. It’s part of their day. It becomes…
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The Sound of Music
Austria was always a country I associated with several things that were often present in my life. The sound of music which I have watched so many times, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert due to my love for classical music. Freud, in a more generic way…
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The Sound of Woosic™
The most expected week of the year so far has come and gone so fast that it feels almost cruel. Automattic’s Grand Meetups, team meetups and now Division Meetups were always highly anticipated, at least by me. Working remotely was one of the best decisions…
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Fun Week
During the month of January, I will be posting (tentatively) one post every day as part of the #bloganuary challenge Sorry, not going with the prompt today. I also figured out I mixed up the days/prompts, so I will skip it today and talk about…
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Back to “Normal”
I swear I thought that being part of the #bloganuary challenge would be enough to get me into the habit of writing more here. But then, the whole Developer Apprenticeship thing happened and threw me off a bit. Mostly because I started another blog to…
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Repost: Automattic Women
It Me!! 😆 Welcome to Automattic Women—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to design and develop Automattic software and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee, Developer Apprentice Rossana Menezes, chats with us from her traveling workstation somewhere…
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How do we stay connected?
Working remotely has become a reality for many during the pandemic and for a lot of people this has became a permanent move. Some companies have switched into being 100% remote, like Shopify, others have adopted an hybrid approach, but the truth is, several people…
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Digital Nomad Visa – Spain
My friends back home will kill me if they read this. I’m not even back from one trip yet and already planning another one and writing about digital Nomad Visas 😏 I don’t consider myself a digital nomad. I guess to be qualified as a…
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The road so far
And here I am. Two weeks into the Developer Apprentice Program and I haven’t gone crazy. YET! 🤣 If you don’t know what I’m talking about, the Developer Apprentice program is a career path program at Automattic to help people who want to move to…
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Repost: 5 Surprising Facts I’ve Learned About Working Remotely
Hai there! I’m back already and today I am reposting my own post that was published in the Happiness Engineer Blog yesterday on a few things I’ve learned about working remotely. Check the post below: Here at Automattic, we have been doing this work-from-home thing for a…
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During January, I will be posting (tentatively) one post every day as part of the #bloganuary challengeToday’s Prompt: What emoji(s) do you like to use? Working at Automattic you need to be fond of emojis and Gifs. As a fully distributed company, with about 1900 employees and…
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Godt nytt år
Happy New year, everyone! May 2022 bring good things, Wishing all of you a healthy new year filled with love and empathy! I’m just glad I got to spend the holidays in Norway with my family. I decided to join the WordPress Bloganuary Challenge and…
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Distributed.blog – Vanessa Van Edwards on Navigating the virtual workspace in Stressful times
The world has dramatically changed in just a few weeks. As companies around the world shift to remote work, how do we navigate this crisis? Distributed host Matt Mullenweg talks to Vanessa Van Edwards, bestselling author, speaker, and founder of Science of People, about how…
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Episode 15: Inside the Grand Meetup — Distributed.blog
On this episode of Distributed.blog Matt Mullenweg and some Automatticians talk all about what the Grand Meetup is like and also several other very interesting things about working remotely and a distributed company. Check it out! On this episode of the Distributed podcast, we get…
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The Grand Meetup 2019
Being part of a distributed company means you will be on your own most of the time, at least physically. As a company, we are constantly communicating via Slack, we have channels for everything, from official company announcements to water cooler channels that goes from…
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The Glamour of working remotely (or not)
Some professions come with natural glamour. If you are an actor, rock star, or any kind of celebrity for that matter, you have that life that everyone else wants, or at least think they want. In the past few years, a new way of working…
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Team Jupiter Challenge
Nope, I’m not going to Jupiter, even tho that would be amazing… Jupiter is the name of my beloved team at Automattic. The best team I should say, and we have now committed to a challenge. It all started during my 1:1 with my TL,…
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