Tag: work
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Found GC20GBC Neptune - The Mystic
This checkin to GC20GBC Neptune - The Mystic reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Super quick find on lunch break during a day coworking in Cheltenham. Love the hiding spot which seems pretty much made for a cache of this shape and size! TFTC!
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Bisect your Priority of Constituencies
Can you rank the priorities of an organisation or system you're part of? Dan challenges you to go one step further and bisect each rank.
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Do What You're Bad At [Video]
This video accompanies a blog post of the same title. The content is basically the same - if you prefer videos, watch this video. If you prefer blog posts, go read the blog post. If you're a superfan, try both and spot the differences. You weirdo.
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Do What You're Bad At
Dan digs deep into why he's really bad at some things, and promises to do them more.
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Automattic International
Off the back of a colleague's throwaway comment, Dan makes cartograms showing how his coworkers' countries proportionally dominate their world map.
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Automattic Privilege
Dan's thinks about the geographic/cultural privileges he enjoys within his international workplace.
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How did it take me years of working-from-home before I thought to install one of these in my desk? Brilliant.
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Automattic Growth
After only two years at Automattic, Dan's now been there longer than most. Wait, what?
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Creed Cult-ure
Automatticians seem to really believe in their creed. Is Dan's employer a cult? Let's try to work it out...
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Ahead of schedule on work project. Invited to 2nd COVID jab next week. Spent half of day working on laptop in sunny garden. Parcel arrived from @LEGO_group with Everyone Is Awesome model (pictured).
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Automattic Retrospective (days 207 to 334)
The fourth in Dan's series of blog posts about his experience of working at Automattic comes as he approaches the end of his first year with the company.
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Buying Another House
By the weekend, Dan hopes to have moved house. Again, but perhaps for the last time?
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Future Challenges for Remote Working
As more and more companies (especially tech companies) talk about retaining a remote-work culture after the coronavirus crisis, Dan considers some of the future challenges they might face.
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A new Automattician who started this week looked me up to thank me for the first in my series of blog posts about starting with @automattic. I feel useful! 😍
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Automattic Lockdown (days 79 to 206)
In another 128-day-interval update, Dan looks back on months two through six working for Automattic.