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  6. <title type="text">Matt Mullenweg</title>
  7. <subtitle type="text">Unlucky in Cards</subtitle>
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  9. <updated>2025-07-01T10:27:30Z</updated>
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  23. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Back on The Verge]]></title>
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  26. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=144271</id>
  27. <updated>2025-07-01T10:27:30Z</updated>
  28. <published>2025-06-30T20:34:50Z</published>
  29. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Automattic" /><category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Press" /><category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="WordPress" />
  30. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[In honor of Automattic&#8217;s 20th anniversary, and also since it&#8217;s been a few years, I joined Nilay Patel the editor-in-chief of The Verge on their Decoder Podcast. We talked about Tumblr and the Fediverse, how Automattic thinks about Ecosystem and Cosmos sides of the business, Automattic&#8217;s re-organization into cross-business functional teams and leadership, the vision &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/06/on-the-verge/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Back on The Verge</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
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  33. <p>In honor of Automattic&#8217;s 20th anniversary, and also since it&#8217;s <a href="https://ma.tt/2022/03/decoder-interview/">been a few years</a>, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/693052/automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-drama-wp-engine-open-source">I joined Nilay Patel the editor-in-chief of The Verge on their Decoder Podcast</a>. We talked about Tumblr and the Fediverse, how <a href="https://automattic.com">Automattic</a> thinks about Ecosystem and Cosmos sides of the business, Automattic&#8217;s re-organization into cross-business functional teams and leadership, the vision of <a href="https://clay.earth">Clay as a personal CRM</a> and <a href="https://www.beeper.com">Beeper as the super-human messaging app that puts control in the hands of users</a>, <a href="https://newspack.com">Newspack</a>, the future of websites, the obligatory coverage of <a href="https://ma.tt/2024/09/wordpress-engine/">the alleged WP Engine trademark violations</a> and their subsequent preemptive suit, and much more. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/693052/automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-drama-wp-engine-open-source">Please give it a listen! They chose the title “Why Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress.”</a></p>
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  43. <p>Speaking of Beeper, we’re going to do a fun event for the next-gen version that’s launching on July 16 in New York City in NoHo. I’ll be there along with Beeper CEO <a href="https://kishan.org">Kishan Bagaria</a> and some of the best and brightest in New York’s tech and creative class. If you’re a Beeper early adopter (or would like to be) and want to attend, leave a comment! We’ve held back some invites for cool folks like readers of ma.tt. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
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  51. <author>
  52. <name>Matt</name>
  53. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
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  55.  
  56. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Alpha School Insider]]></title>
  57. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/06/alpha-school/" />
  58.  
  59. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=143721</id>
  60. <updated>2025-06-26T15:01:50Z</updated>
  61. <published>2025-06-26T15:01:50Z</published>
  62. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Education" />
  63. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Scott Alexander, of Slate Star Codex / Astral Codex Ten fame, ran an Everything-Except-Book Review Contest 2025 in February. The prompt: &#8220;Submit an ACX-length post reviewing something, anything, except a book.&#8221; The submissions were collected anonymously in a giant 450-page Google Doc. I don&#8217;t think the winners have been chosen yet, but there is one essay that &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/06/alpha-school/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Alpha School Insider</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
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  66. <p>Scott Alexander, of Slate Star Codex / Astral Codex Ten fame, ran <a href="https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/everything-except-book-review-contest">an Everything-Except-Book Review Contest 2025 in February</a>. The prompt: &#8220;Submit an ACX-length post reviewing something, anything, <em>except</em> a book.&#8221; The submissions were collected anonymously in a giant 450-page Google Doc. I don&#8217;t think the winners have been chosen yet, but there is one essay that has been making the rounds and getting shared more, and that&#8217;s <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d0vRSj1E93joWWvbUen2XGuDjN_mM94ybMIAADzM2fo/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.1n2243y7h4yv">Alpha School and &#8220;2-hour Learning&#8221; powered by AI,</a> a parent&#8217;s perspective on <a href="https://alpha.school/">Alpha School</a>, a set of &#8220;AI-powered&#8221; schools in Texas and Florida.</p>
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  70. <p>It&#8217;s worth reading the entire essay, but I wanted to excerpt a few points I found interesting:</p>
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  75. <p>After twelve months I’m persuaded that Alpha is doing something remarkable—but that almost everyone, including Alpha’s own copywriting team, is describing it wrong:</p>
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  80. <li><strong>It isn’t</strong> <strong>genuine two‑hour learning</strong>: most kids start school at 8:30am, start working on the “two-hour platform” sometime between 9am-930am and are occupied with academics until noon-1230pm. They also blend in “surges” from time to time to squeeze in more hours on the platform.<br></li>
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  84. <li><strong>It isn’t</strong> <strong>AI</strong> in the way we have been thinking about it since the “<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762">Attention is all you need</a>” paper. There is no “generative AI” powered by OpenAI, Gemini or Claude in the platform the kids use – it is closer to “turbocharged spreadsheet checklist with a spaced‑repetition algorithm”<br></li>
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  88. <li><strong>It definitely isn’t</strong> <strong>teacher‑free</strong>: Teachers have been rebranded “guides”, and while their workload is different than a traditional school, they are very important – and both the quantity and quality are much higher than traditional schools.<br></li>
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  92. <li><strong>The bundle matters</strong>: it’s not just the learning platform on its own. A big part of the product’s success is how the school has set up student incentives and the culture they have built to make everything work together</li>
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  97. <p>…Yet the core claim survives: Since they started in October my children have been marching through and mastering material roughly <em>three times</em> faster than their age‑matched peers (and their own speed prior to the program).</p>
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  102. <p>One of the surprises doesn&#8217;t come until Part 4 of the essay:</p>
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  107. <p><strong>Incentives</strong></p>
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  111. <p>People REALLY don’t like the idea of incentivizing kids to learn.</p>
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  115. <p>Roland Fryer, who has done extensive work on what works in incentivizing students, <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/092011_incentives_fryer_allen_paper2.pdf">quotes a 2010 Gallup poll</a> that found that only 23% of American parents support the “idea of school districts paying small amount of money to students to, for example, read books, attend school or to get good grades” (76% opposed the idea with only 1% undecided).<br><br>There are not many things that 76% of Americans agree on. Only <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/surprising-things-americans-actually-agree-on/18/">69% of Americans believe another Civil War</a> would be a bad thing. Only <a href="https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/crjq3mojm5/toplines_Views%20on%20Britain%20and%20the%20Monarchy.pdf">78% agree that American independence from Britain</a> was the right choice. People REALLY don’t like paying kids to read books.</p>
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  120. <p>I hope that gives you enough of a hook to read the entire essay, it was quite good and provocative to many assumptions I&#8217;ve had about education.</p>
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  129. <name>Matt</name>
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  132.  
  133. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Automattic Twenty]]></title>
  134. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/06/automattic-twenty/" />
  135.  
  136. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=143509</id>
  137. <updated>2025-06-21T06:44:24Z</updated>
  138. <published>2025-06-21T02:59:54Z</published>
  139. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Automattic" />
  140. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[We&#8217;re celebrating a fun anniversary at Automattic today, our 20th, with a fun look-back. Gosh, it&#8217;s been quite a journey, and it still feels like we&#8217;re just getting started in so many areas. In 2005, being a remote-first company was anathema to investors and business leaders* at the time; it was a scarlet letter that &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/06/automattic-twenty/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Automattic Twenty</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
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  143. <p><a href="https://automattic.com/2025/06/20/automattic-20-years/">We&#8217;re celebrating a fun anniversary at Automattic today, our 20th, with a fun look-back</a>. Gosh, it&#8217;s been quite a journey, and it still feels like we&#8217;re just getting started in so many areas.</p>
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  147. <p>In 2005, being a remote-first company was anathema to investors and business leaders* at the time; it was a scarlet letter that combined with our embrace of Open Source and the relative inexperience got us some funny looks and a lot of skepticism. I will be forever grateful to the true contrarians who bet on Automattic in our earliest days. </p>
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  151. <p>Even when it was clearly working the first few years, there was always the dismissal of &#8220;that won&#8217;t scale&#8221; that loomed like a remote startup <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter">Great Filter</a>. These days I hear from friends who run incubators or do seed investing that almost every company they look at taps into remote talent.</p>
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  154.  
  155. <p>It makes me think about what uncommon things Automattic does today that will be standard in the coming decades. We do our best to balance idealism with pragmatism, because even if you are on the right side of history, being too early can be as bad as being wrong.</p>
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  159. <p>I can&#8217;t predict everything that will change over the coming decades, especially with AI making the next few years particularly hard to predict. Still, I do know a few things that <em>won&#8217;t</em> change: everything flows from our people, open source is still the most powerful idea of our generation, growth is the best feedback loop, and no matter how far away the goal is, the only way to get there is by putting one foot in front of another every day. People will always want fast, bug-free software; instant, omniscient customer service when they need it; and experiences so intuitive that they usually don&#8217;t. And once they&#8217;ve had a taste of freedom, it&#8217;s hard to return to their previous state. (For more, <a href="https://automattic.com/creed/">see our creed</a>.)</p>
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  163. <p>Our industry is highly cyclical, and I feel fortunate to have gained the perspective of a few bubbles and crashes, along with all the emotions that go with them. It&#8217;s undeniable we&#8217;re in the very early days — the command-line times — of an AI era, and though it will probably have its own bubble and crash cycles, it feels as significant to me as anything since we started. It&#8217;s more important than ever that we fight for open source and the freedom-enhancing side of technology. I&#8217;m committed to doing whatever I can to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging, but there are many other areas of the human experience to cover&#8230; pick one to work on! It&#8217;s hard and rewarding work. </p>
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  167. <p>When I was working on an early version of one of our internal stats systems, it was really important to me that it showed rolling windows of the last 24 hours (daily), 168 hours, 4 weeks, and of course yearly. The rolling was important so you could see the impact of your changes as soon as possible. Then I felt called to add another: decade.</p>
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  174. <p>Some thought it was silly at the time, and it&#8217;s true that it initially served mainly as a way to display the cumulative number. But I wanted every time someone looked at one of these stats pages that they were reminded that <strong>we&#8217;re building for the long term</strong>. Our users and customers deserve nothing less. And now we have some statistics with 20 years of history, it has some useful comparisons as well! </p>
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  177.  
  178. <p>In <a href="https://ma.tt/2015/06/ten-years-of-automattic/">Ten Years of Automattic, I wrote</a>:</p>
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  183. <p>There’s a lot more to do, and I can’t wait to see what a “20 Years of Automattic” post says. I’m a lucky guy.</p>
  184. </blockquote>
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  187.  
  188. <p>Now we know! I&#8217;m still a very lucky guy, and can&#8217;t wait to build, learn, and share alongside a talented crew of like-minded hackers, dreamers, and doers.</p>
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  192. <p><em>* I&#8217;ll note that pioneers like Bob Young (Red Hat), Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research), Jason Fried (37Signals), and Mårten Mickos (MySQL) were big inspirations. Also, the entire Open Source community and most projects operated at least partially this way, which is why it seemed so natural to us as a second-generation Open Source company.</em></p>
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  199. <entry>
  200. <author>
  201. <name>Matt</name>
  202. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  203. </author>
  204.  
  205. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Alfred-like Shortcuts in Spotlight]]></title>
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  207.  
  208. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=143388</id>
  209. <updated>2025-06-18T16:55:25Z</updated>
  210. <published>2025-06-18T16:55:25Z</published>
  211. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Apple" /><category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="WordPress" />
  212. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been testing the developer previews of all the new Apple 26 operating systems, which I don&#8217;t recommend this early in the cycle, but I like to live dangerously. I&#8217;ve quickly become accustomed to Liquid Glass. The iPad windowing enhancements do make it feel more like a real computer, but I usually run things in &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/06/macos-26-spotlight/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Alfred-like Shortcuts in Spotlight</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
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  215. <p>I&#8217;ve been testing the developer previews of all the new Apple 26 operating systems, which I don&#8217;t recommend this early in the cycle, but I like to live dangerously. I&#8217;ve quickly become accustomed to Liquid Glass. The iPad windowing enhancements do make it feel more like a real computer, but I usually run things in full-screen mode. My favorite thing to play with so far has been the new Spotlight (what pops up when you press Command + Space) and related shortcuts.</p>
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  219. <p>I loved <a href="https://www.alfredapp.com/">Alfred</a>, I tried <a href="https://www.raycast.com/">Raycast</a>, but a general life goal this year is to simplify wherever I can, so I&#8217;ve been exploring the enhancements in the new Spotlight.</p>
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  223. <p>What I&#8217;ve found the most useful in the past is <a href="https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/actions/open-url/">Alfred&#8217;s Open URL Action</a>, which basically lets you type something like &#8220;gm united reservation&#8221; and it translates that into opening a Gmail search in your browser, with &#8220;united reservation&#8221; put in the URL in the right place to run a search.</p>
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  227. <p>The Shortcuts app in MacOS and iOS is amazing, which I&#8217;ve always known, but I haven&#8217;t played with it much. This was my chance! After a bit of tinkering, I got it to pop up an input form and then run the search. <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=macos+26+shortcuts+%22receive+input+from+search%22">I Googled a lot to see if it could take input</a> from the Spotlight search bar and every place said no, I&#8217;m not sure if this is new in MacOS 26 or not but I found the button that makes it work. It&#8217;s not as smooth as Alfred, but it&#8217;s pretty decent. I&#8217;m going to share a screenshot that shows my Gmail search shortcut that takes input from Spotlight — the key breakthrough was clicking the (i) menu on the right and finding the checkbox for &#8220;Receive Input from Search.&#8221;</p>
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  231. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" width="604" height="309" data-attachment-id="143391" data-permalink="https://ma.tt/2025/06/macos-26-spotlight/screenshot-5/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/gmail-shortcut.jpeg?fit=1594%2C816&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1594,816" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Screenshot" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Screenshot&lt;/p&gt;
  232. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/gmail-shortcut.jpeg?fit=840%2C430&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/gmail-shortcut.jpeg?fit=604%2C309&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/gmail-shortcut-1024x524.jpeg?resize=604%2C309&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-143391" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/gmail-shortcut.jpeg?resize=1024%2C524&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/gmail-shortcut.jpeg?resize=840%2C430&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 840w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/gmail-shortcut.jpeg?resize=195%2C100&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 195w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/gmail-shortcut.jpeg?resize=768%2C393&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/gmail-shortcut.jpeg?resize=1536%2C786&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/gmail-shortcut.jpeg?resize=899%2C460&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 899w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/gmail-shortcut.jpeg?w=1594&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1594w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/gmail-shortcut.jpeg?w=1208&amp;quality=89 1208w" sizes="(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px" /></figure>
  233.  
  234.  
  235.  
  236. <p>I gave it a &#8220;gm&#8221; hotkey, pressed enter, and you get this in Spotlight.</p>
  237.  
  238.  
  239.  
  240. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" width="604" height="122" data-attachment-id="143395" data-permalink="https://ma.tt/2025/06/macos-26-spotlight/spotlight-with-shortcut/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/spotlight-with-shortcut.png?fit=1256%2C254&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1256,254" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="spotlight-with-shortcut" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/spotlight-with-shortcut.png?fit=840%2C170&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/spotlight-with-shortcut.png?fit=604%2C122&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/spotlight-with-shortcut-1024x207.png?resize=604%2C122&#038;quality=80&#038;ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-143395" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/spotlight-with-shortcut.png?resize=1024%2C207&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/spotlight-with-shortcut.png?resize=840%2C170&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 840w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/spotlight-with-shortcut.png?resize=195%2C39&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 195w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/spotlight-with-shortcut.png?resize=768%2C155&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/06/spotlight-with-shortcut.png?w=1256&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 1256w" sizes="(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px" /></figure>
  241.  
  242.  
  243.  
  244. <p class="is-style-default">Tada! Not as nice as Alfred but it gets the job done. My other shortcuts that people might find useful are LI for LinkedIn search, PY is Perplexity, YT for searching the history of YouTube videos I&#8217;ve watched, and AM for searching my Amazon order history. (Because I&#8217;m usually trying to find a link for something I&#8217;m recommending, or re-order an item.) Here are the search URLs for everything I&#8217;ve mentioned:</p>
  245.  
  246.  
  247.  
  248. <ul class="wp-block-list">
  249. <li><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/3/#search/">https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/</a> (If you have multiple Google accounts, change the number in the URL to go to the one you want, and then login in that same order every time.)</li>
  250.  
  251.  
  252.  
  253. <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/index/?keywords=">https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/index/?keywords=</a></li>
  254.  
  255.  
  256.  
  257. <li><a href="https://www.perplexity.ai/search/">https://www.perplexity.ai/search/</a></li>
  258.  
  259.  
  260.  
  261. <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/feed/history?query=">https://www.youtube.com/feed/history?query=</a></li>
  262.  
  263.  
  264.  
  265. <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/your-orders/search/?search=">https://www.amazon.com/your-orders/search/?search=</a></li>
  266. </ul>
  267.  
  268.  
  269.  
  270. <p>If you dug this, did you know WordPress also has a cool popup shortcut feature?<a href="https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/site-editor-command-palette/"> In 2023, we introduced the Command Palette in the Gutenberg block editor and site editor</a>. To access it on Mac, you press Command + k. I&#8217;d like to bring it to every admin page so it can function more like Spotlight or Raycast for WordPress.</p>
  271. ]]></content>
  273. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/06/macos-26-spotlight/#comments" thr:count="2" />
  274. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/06/macos-26-spotlight/feed/atom/" thr:count="2" />
  275. <thr:total>2</thr:total>
  276. </entry>
  277. <entry>
  278. <author>
  279. <name>Matt</name>
  280. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  281. </author>
  282.  
  283. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Play With Clay]]></title>
  284. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/06/clay/" />
  285.  
  286. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=143265</id>
  287. <updated>2025-06-12T18:47:34Z</updated>
  288. <published>2025-06-12T18:37:46Z</published>
  289. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Automattic" />
  290. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Happy to announce that the amazing Clay.earth product and team is joining Automattic. If you haven&#8217;t tried the app out yet, here&#8217;s a quick video to give you a taste. TechCrunch has covered the broader strategy pretty well: One of the top requests we&#8217;ve heard from Beeper beta testers is they want to tie in &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/06/clay/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Play With Clay</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  291.  
  292. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/06/clay/"><![CDATA[
  293. <p>Happy to announce that the amazing <a href="https://clay.earth/">Clay.earth</a> product and team is joining <a href="https://automattic.com/">Automattic</a>. If you haven&#8217;t tried the app out yet, here&#8217;s a quick video to give you a taste.</p>
  294.  
  295.  
  296.  
  297. <figure class="wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  298. <iframe loading="lazy" title="Introducing Clay" width="604" height="340" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sjRKMbmeXnw?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  299. </div></figure>
  300.  
  301.  
  302.  
  303. <p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/automattic-acquires-relationship-manager-clay-to-add-an-identity-layer-to-online-tools/">TechCrunch has covered the broader strategy pretty well</a>: One of the top requests we&#8217;ve heard from <a href="https://www.beeper.com/">Beeper</a> beta testers is they want to tie in more context, like a personal CRM, and some even requested Clay by name. We&#8217;ll keep the apps separate, as Clay also has some interesting team uses, but they will complement and integrate with each other as part of our all-in-one messaging strategy.</p>
  304.  
  305.  
  306.  
  307. <p>We share a vision to integrate Clay&#8217;s technology, which manages over 140 million relationships, as a layer across many of our products and experiences at Automattic. I&#8217;m excited to work with the founders, Matt and Zach, to bring this vision to life. I&#8217;ve always felt the missing primitive in WordPress&#8217; content management data architecture was a scalable concept of a Person and Relationships outside of our user table.</p>
  308.  
  309.  
  310.  
  311. <p><a href="https://clay.earth/next">Here&#8217;s the beautiful announcement on the Clay site</a> and <a href="https://automattic.com/2025/06/12/automattic-welcomes-clay/">on Automattic&#8217;s</a>.</p>
  312. ]]></content>
  314. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/06/clay/#comments" thr:count="3" />
  315. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/06/clay/feed/atom/" thr:count="3" />
  316. <thr:total>3</thr:total>
  317. </entry>
  318. <entry>
  319. <author>
  320. <name>Matt</name>
  321. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  322. </author>
  323.  
  324. <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Five Layers of Sharing Thoughts and Ideas]]></title>
  325. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/sharing-levels/" />
  326.  
  327. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=142705</id>
  328. <updated>2025-05-28T09:07:34Z</updated>
  329. <published>2025-05-28T00:55:00Z</published>
  330. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="WordPress" />
  331. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about mimetic formation, how a thought becomes an idea, and how that idea gestates and evolves as it&#8217;s progressively shared in wider and wider circles. During a recent product review of Day One, I was struck by how central the app is to my perspective on humans, relationships, and what &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/sharing-levels/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Five Layers of Sharing Thoughts and Ideas</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  332.  
  333. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/05/sharing-levels/"><![CDATA[
  334. <p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about mimetic formation, how a thought becomes an idea, and how that idea gestates and evolves as it&#8217;s progressively shared in wider and wider circles.</p>
  335.  
  336.  
  337.  
  338. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="604" height="198" data-attachment-id="142868" data-permalink="https://ma.tt/2025/05/sharing-levels/five-layers/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/05/five-layers.png?fit=1440%2C471&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1440,471" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="five-layers" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/05/five-layers.png?fit=840%2C275&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/05/five-layers.png?fit=604%2C198&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/05/five-layers-1024x335.png?resize=604%2C198&#038;quality=80&#038;ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-142868" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/05/five-layers.png?resize=1024%2C335&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/05/five-layers.png?resize=840%2C275&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 840w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/05/five-layers.png?resize=195%2C64&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 195w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/05/five-layers.png?resize=768%2C251&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/05/five-layers.png?resize=1406%2C460&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 1406w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/05/five-layers.png?w=1440&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 1440w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/05/five-layers.png?w=1208&amp;quality=80 1208w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px" /></figure>
  339.  
  340.  
  341.  
  342. <p>During a recent product review of <a href="https://dayoneapp.com/">Day One</a>, I was struck by how central the app is to my perspective on humans, relationships, and what we share. There are several layers to it, ranging from your innermost thoughts to what you share with the world. Each layer has its own context, challenges, and possibilities, and Automattic offers technology and products tailored to each.</p>
  343.  
  344.  
  345.  
  346. <p>1. Layer one is your internal thoughts. Your consciousness, what exists only in your mind, or what I like to call meatspace. This space is yours and yours alone. This generative space is at the core of human creativity and existence.</p>
  347.  
  348.  
  349.  
  350. <p>2. Layer two is triggered as soon as you put something into a medium, like writing it down. It’s everything that leaves your head, but is just reserved for you. In the past, we only had physical journals. Today, we have <a href="https://dayoneapp.com/">Day One</a> as our strongest product in this space, but many people also have a private WordPress installation just for themselves. There are so many tools out there that help you create! Colors, brushes, canvases. Harper, for example, helps you write better — think of it as an open-source <a href="https://www.grammarly.com/">Grammarly</a>, right now just in a few limited contexts, but in the future everywhere you write. </p>
  351.  
  352.  
  353.  
  354. <p>3. Layer three is you and someone else. This is everything you share with one other person, which is an incredibly sacred act. <a href="https://dayoneapp.com/shared-journals/">Shared journals</a> on Day One, messaging on <a href="https://www.beeper.com/">Beeper</a>, DMs, private blogs with your best friend. A shared Google doc. This is its own special space. It has an intimacy and privacy that is core to the human experience. This is also phase 3 of Gutenberg, which is all about real-time co-editing and collaboration. This layer is the one I&#8217;m most excited about expanding in 2025 and 2026.</p>
  355.  
  356.  
  357.  
  358. <p>4. Layer four is sharing within a finite group. N+1. It&#8217;s a space of collaboration and brainstorming with families, tribes, and teams. <a href="https://wordpress.com/p2/">P2</a>, Linear, Github, group chats, and cozy communities. You lose some of the intimacy of layer three but gain more group intelligence.</p>
  359.  
  360.  
  361.  
  362. <p>5. Finally, we have the fifth layer. This is the public layer, where I have spent a lot of my time at <a href="https://automattic.com/">Automattic</a>. It is an extremely competitive space of social media and blogs: <a href="https://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>, <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a>, and <a href="https://tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>. Once you publish publicly, you open yourself up to the beauty and chaos of the wider world. The best reason to blog is comments, the people who find you and add to your thoughts, who you never would have imagined. This is a crucible, but makes your own writing and thinking so much better, it&#8217;s worth the mishegoss. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
  363.  
  364.  
  365.  
  366. <p>This has been kicking around in my head and at layer four for a while. Thanks to <a href="https://kelly.blog/">Kelly Hoffman</a> for helping me get this to layer five.</p>
  367.  
  368.  
  369.  
  370. <p>P.S. Happy 22<sup>nd</sup> birthday to WordPress! <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2025/05/announcing-the-formation-of-the-wordpress-ai-team/">Very excited about the new AI team on .org</a>.</p>
  371. ]]></content>
  373. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/sharing-levels/#comments" thr:count="7" />
  374. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/sharing-levels/feed/atom/" thr:count="7" />
  375. <thr:total>7</thr:total>
  376. </entry>
  377. <entry>
  378. <author>
  379. <name>Matt</name>
  380. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  381. </author>
  382.  
  383. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Jony Ive &#038; Patrick Collison]]></title>
  384. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/jony-ive/" />
  385.  
  386. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=142505</id>
  387. <updated>2025-05-16T00:08:43Z</updated>
  388. <published>2025-05-16T00:08:37Z</published>
  389. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Asides" />
  390. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[A really beautiful interview.]]></summary>
  391.  
  392. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/05/jony-ive/"><![CDATA[
  393. <p>A really beautiful interview.</p>
  394.  
  395.  
  396.  
  397. <figure class="wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  398. <iframe loading="lazy" title="A conversation with Jony Ive" width="604" height="340" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wLb9g_8r-mE?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  399. </div></figure>
  400. ]]></content>
  402. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/jony-ive/#comments" thr:count="1" />
  403. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/jony-ive/feed/atom/" thr:count="1" />
  404. <thr:total>1</thr:total>
  405. </entry>
  406. <entry>
  407. <author>
  408. <name>Matt</name>
  409. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  410. </author>
  411.  
  412. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Upcoming Talks]]></title>
  413. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/upcoming-talks/" />
  414.  
  415. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=142414</id>
  416. <updated>2025-05-13T23:59:46Z</updated>
  417. <published>2025-05-13T16:29:51Z</published>
  418. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Asides" />
  419. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It’s a busy speaking season! I just spoke at the Intelligent Change summit, and will be at SaaStock in Austin on May 14, SXSW London, on June 4, Brilliant Minds in Stockholm, and WordCamp EU in Basel, Switzerland, on June 7.]]></summary>
  420.  
  421. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/05/upcoming-talks/"><![CDATA[
  422. <p>It’s a busy speaking season! I just spoke at the Intelligent Change summit, and will be at SaaStock in Austin on May 14, SXSW London, on June 4, Brilliant Minds in Stockholm, and WordCamp EU in Basel, Switzerland, on June 7.</p>
  423. ]]></content>
  425. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/upcoming-talks/#comments" thr:count="1" />
  426. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/upcoming-talks/feed/atom/" thr:count="1" />
  427. <thr:total>1</thr:total>
  428. </entry>
  429. <entry>
  430. <author>
  431. <name>Matt</name>
  432. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  433. </author>
  434.  
  435. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Code Matters]]></title>
  436. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/code-matters/" />
  437.  
  438. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=142334</id>
  439. <updated>2025-05-09T22:59:18Z</updated>
  440. <published>2025-05-09T22:59:18Z</published>
  441. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Asides" />
  442. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It looks like the code that the newly announced Figma Sites is producing isn&#8217;t the best. There are some cool Figma-to-WordPress workflows; I hope Sites gets more people exploring those options.]]></summary>
  443.  
  444. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/05/code-matters/"><![CDATA[
  445. <p>It looks like the code that the newly announced Figma Sites is producing isn&#8217;t the best.</p>
  446.  
  447.  
  448.  
  449. <figure class="wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  450. <iframe loading="lazy" title="Figma Sites is worse than you might have thought" width="604" height="340" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZsFIvULxkHI?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  451. </div></figure>
  452.  
  453.  
  454.  
  455. <p>There are some cool Figma-to-WordPress workflows; I hope Sites gets more people exploring those options.</p>
  456. ]]></content>
  458. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/code-matters/#comments" thr:count="1" />
  459. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/code-matters/feed/atom/" thr:count="1" />
  460. <thr:total>1</thr:total>
  461. </entry>
  462. <entry>
  463. <author>
  464. <name>Matt</name>
  465. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  466. </author>
  467.  
  468. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Remember Gravatar?]]></title>
  469. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/remember-gravatar/" />
  470.  
  471. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=142243</id>
  472. <updated>2025-05-06T16:27:46Z</updated>
  473. <published>2025-05-06T16:27:46Z</published>
  474. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Automattic" />
  475. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Gravatar has always been about giving people control over their identity online. One avatar, one profile, synced across the web, verified connections, with a fully open API. Gravatar is a true open identity layer for the internet, and now for AI.&#160; For developers, we’ve rolled out mobile SDKs and a revamped REST API that lets &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/remember-gravatar/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Remember Gravatar?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  476.  
  477. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/05/remember-gravatar/"><![CDATA[
  478. <p>Gravatar has always been about giving people control over their identity online. One avatar, one profile, synced across the web, verified connections, with a fully open API.</p>
  479.  
  480.  
  481.  
  482. <p>Gravatar is a true open identity layer for the internet, <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2025/05/06/build-your-ai-identity-with-gravatars-new-tool/">and now for AI</a>.&nbsp;</p>
  483.  
  484.  
  485.  
  486. <p>For <a href="https://docs.gravatar.com/">developers</a>, we’ve rolled out mobile SDKs and a revamped REST API that lets you fetch avatars and profile data with just an email hash. Whether you&#8217;re building a blog, a community, or an AI agent that needs to understand who it&#8217;s talking to, Gravatar provides the infrastructure to make identity seamless and user-centric. </p>
  487.  
  488.  
  489.  
  490. <p>It’s free, open, and built with developers in mind. We believe identity should belong to the individual, not be locked behind proprietary platforms. Gravatar is our contribution to that vision.​</p>
  491.  
  492.  
  493.  
  494. <p>If you haven’t checked it out lately, now’s a great time to explore what <a href="https://gravatar.com">Gravatar</a> can do for your app or your online presence. And think about how your apps can drive more Gravatar signups.</p>
  495. ]]></content>
  497. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/remember-gravatar/#comments" thr:count="6" />
  498. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/remember-gravatar/feed/atom/" thr:count="6" />
  499. <thr:total>6</thr:total>
  500. </entry>
  501. <entry>
  502. <author>
  503. <name>Matt</name>
  504. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  505. </author>
  506.  
  507. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Berkshire Hathaway Meeting]]></title>
  508. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/berkshire/" />
  509.  
  510. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=141784</id>
  511. <updated>2025-05-03T23:43:59Z</updated>
  512. <published>2025-05-02T21:56:07Z</published>
  513. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Automattic" />
  514. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve checked off a bucket list item: I&#8217;m attending a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. It&#8217;s really an event! Thousands flock to Omaha, Nebraska, for the legendary Q&#38;A sessions with Warren Buffett and shareholder deals. They&#8217;ve made it quite the circus, with every Berkshire Hathaway company having a booth of some sort, and typically selling their &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/berkshire/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Berkshire Hathaway Meeting</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  515.  
  516. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/05/berkshire/"><![CDATA[
  517. <p>I&#8217;ve checked off a bucket list item: I&#8217;m attending a <a href="https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/">Berkshire Hathaway</a> shareholder meeting. It&#8217;s really an event! Thousands flock to Omaha, Nebraska, for the legendary Q&amp;A sessions with Warren Buffett and shareholder deals. They&#8217;ve made it quite the circus, with every Berkshire Hathaway company having a booth of some sort, and typically selling their goods at a discount or with exclusive items you can only buy there, like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Squishmallows (which of course I got, to complement my <a href="https://www.berkshirenerds.store/">bronze busts</a>).</p>
  518.  
  519.  
  520.  
  521. <p>It&#8217;s strange to have a Dairy Queen booth selling $1 ice cream (cash only!) next to NetJets, but those juxtapositions are part of the Berkshire vibe—it&#8217;s very high/low, like Costco (a big Berkshire holding). There&#8217;s also an element of WordCamps or a Salesforce Trailblazer event in that you can tell there&#8217;s a &#8220;type&#8221; of person that&#8217;s easy to spot who&#8217;s a Berkshire enthusiast. A lot of Berkshire brands are also WordPress users: Duracell, GEICO, Acme Brick, Berxi, MiTek. I think there is a lot of mimetic overlap between the values of open source and the values of building a Berkshire company.</p>
  522.  
  523.  
  524.  
  525. <p>As with any big gathering, the side events are also great, and I was honored to have a fireside chat with a friend and Buffett protégé, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Britt_Cool">Tracy Britt Cool</a>. To an audience of about 60+ CEOs in the <a href="https://kanbrick.com/">Kanbrick</a> community, we talked about Automattic&#8217;s history and some of the latest happenings in tech; AI was definitely on people&#8217;s minds in the Q&amp;A. They had questions for me, but I also feel like I have a ton to learn from this group that has built founder or family-owned businesses with an average of 80-100M of revenue, the kind of thing that is the engine of the American economy. </p>
  526.  
  527.  
  528.  
  529. <p>It makes me pine for the day when we can have more shareholders in Automattic; I think it would be an amazing cohort of folks that believe in open source and the open web, invested together and learning from each other, and I could imagine an event very much like these shareholder meetings. It&#8217;s so much more powerful when you build a business where your customers are also a community.</p>
  530.  
  531.  
  532.  
  533. <p><strong>Update:</strong> I knew this would be a special one because it was Warren&#8217;s 60th, but he really went above and beyond by announcing his intention for Greg Abel to take over as CEO at the end of the year. The standing ovation was a special moment, 60 years of 19.9% compounding returns! I think the future of Berkshire is very bright because he&#8217;s shared so much of his worldview that there are others that have made it their own.</p>
  534. ]]></content>
  536. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/berkshire/#comments" thr:count="4" />
  537. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/05/berkshire/feed/atom/" thr:count="4" />
  538. <thr:total>4</thr:total>
  539. </entry>
  540. <entry>
  541. <author>
  542. <name>Matt</name>
  543. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  544. </author>
  545.  
  546. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Reflecting]]></title>
  547. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/04/reflecting/" />
  548.  
  549. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=141539</id>
  550. <updated>2025-04-24T03:30:40Z</updated>
  551. <published>2025-04-24T03:30:40Z</published>
  552. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Personal" /><category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="WordPress" />
  553. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I know there’s been a lot of frustration directed at me specifically. Some of it, I believe, is misplaced—but I also understand where it’s coming from. The passing of Pope Francis has deeply impacted me. While I still disagree with the Church on many issues, he was the Pope who broke the mold in so &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/04/reflecting/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Reflecting</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  554.  
  555. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/04/reflecting/"><![CDATA[
  556. <p>I know there’s been a lot of frustration directed at me specifically. Some of it, I believe, is misplaced—but I also understand where it’s coming from.</p>
  557.  
  558.  
  559.  
  560. <p>The passing of Pope Francis has deeply impacted me. While I still disagree with the Church on many issues, he was the Pope who broke the mold in so many ways, inspiring me and drawing me back to the Catholic faith I grew up with, with an emphasis on service, compassion, and humility. His passing on Easter Monday, a holiday about rebirth, feels historic. Moments like that invite reflection—not just on personal choices, but on the broader systems we’re a part of.</p>
  561.  
  562.  
  563.  
  564. <p>My life, which was primarily about generative creative work that was free for everyone to use, has been subsumed by legal battles. From the start, I’ve said this: after many rounds of negotiation that I approached in good faith, WPE chose to sue. In hindsight, those conversations weren’t held in the same spirit, and that’s unfortunate.</p>
  565.  
  566.  
  567.  
  568. <p>But we can’t rewrite the past. What we can do is decide how we move forward.</p>
  569.  
  570.  
  571.  
  572. <p>The maker-taker problem, at the heart of what we’ve been wrestling with, doesn’t disappear by avoiding it. If we’re serious about contributing to the future of open source, and about preserving the legacy of what we’ve built together, we need space to reset. That can’t happen under the weight of ongoing litigation. The cards are in WPE hands, a fight they&#8217;ve started and refuse to end.</p>
  573.  
  574.  
  575.  
  576. <p>So I’m asking for a moment of reflection for us all as stewards of a shared ecosystem. Let’s not lose sight of that.</p>
  577. ]]></content>
  579. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/04/reflecting/#comments" thr:count="28" />
  580. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/04/reflecting/feed/atom/" thr:count="28" />
  581. <thr:total>28</thr:total>
  582. </entry>
  583. <entry>
  584. <author>
  585. <name>Matt</name>
  586. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  587. </author>
  588.  
  589. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Greatest Hits]]></title>
  590. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/04/greatest-hits/" />
  591.  
  592. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=141409</id>
  593. <updated>2025-04-20T06:26:52Z</updated>
  594. <published>2025-04-19T23:56:17Z</published>
  595. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Meta" />
  596. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been blogging now for approximately 8,465 days since my first post on Movable Type. My colleague Dan Luu helped me compile some of the &#8220;greatest hits&#8221; from the archives of ma.tt, perhaps some posts will stir some memories for you as well: Where Did WordCamps Come From? (2023) A look back at how Foo &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/04/greatest-hits/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Greatest Hits</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  597.  
  598. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/04/greatest-hits/"><![CDATA[
  599. <p>I&#8217;ve been blogging now for approximately 8,465 days since my first post on Movable Type. My colleague <a href="https://danluu.com/">Dan Luu</a> helped me compile some of the &#8220;greatest hits&#8221; from the archives of ma.tt, perhaps some posts will stir some memories for you as well:</p>
  600.  
  601.  
  602.  
  603. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2023/08/i-love-wordcamps/"><strong>Where Did WordCamps Come From? (2023)</strong></a></p>
  604.  
  605.  
  606.  
  607. <p>A look back at how Foo Camp and Bar Camp inspired WordCamps.</p>
  608.  
  609.  
  610.  
  611. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2018/09/ceos-and-the-real-world/"><strong>Getting Real Feedback as a CEO (2018)</strong></a></p>
  612.  
  613.  
  614.  
  615. <p>How do you make sure you get good information when you’re CEO? Something we’ve been trying that’s been working is having an anonymous internal forum. Like Blind, but internal to the company, and really anonymous, without anything linking a user ID to a comment.</p>
  616.  
  617.  
  618.  
  619. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2016/10/wix-and-the-gpl/"><strong>Wix and the GPL (2016)</strong></a></p>
  620.  
  621.  
  622.  
  623. <p>That time Wix built their closed-source mobile app on GPL code.</p>
  624.  
  625.  
  626.  
  627. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2015/02/left-my-heart-in/"><strong>What I Miss and Don’t Miss About San Francisco (2015)</strong></a></p>
  628.  
  629.  
  630.  
  631. <p>Self explanatory <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
  632.  
  633.  
  634.  
  635. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2015/02/advice-and-fallacies/"><strong>Advice About Advice (2015)</strong></a></p>
  636.  
  637.  
  638.  
  639. <p>Why you need to think things through from first principles and not just blindly follow advice.</p>
  640.  
  641.  
  642.  
  643. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2014/04/the-web-matters/"><strong>Why the Web Still Matters (2014)</strong></a></p>
  644.  
  645.  
  646.  
  647. <p>A guest post by Ben Thompson of <a href="https://stratechery.com/">Stratechery</a> on why “the web is dead” comments were wrong in 2014. Still true today!</p>
  648.  
  649.  
  650.  
  651. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2014/01/four-freedoms/"><strong>The Four Freedoms (2014)</strong></a></p>
  652.  
  653.  
  654.  
  655. <p>A discussion of Stallman’s four open source freedoms. Our open source Bill of Rights, if you will.</p>
  656.  
  657.  
  658.  
  659. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2014/01/intrinsic-blogging/"><strong>The Intrinsic Value of Blogging (2014)</strong></a></p>
  660.  
  661.  
  662.  
  663. <p>On ignoring vanity metrics and blogging for intrinsic reasons</p>
  664.  
  665.  
  666.  
  667. <p><strong>What’s in My Bag </strong><a href="https://ma.tt/2015/01/whats-in-my-bag-2014/"><strong>2014</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://ma.tt/2016/03/whats-in-my-bag-2016-edition/"><strong>2016</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://ma.tt/2017/05/whats-in-my-bag-2017/"><strong>2017</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://ma.tt/2018/10/whats-in-my-bag-2018-edition/"><strong>2018</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://ma.tt/2021/01/whats-in-my-bag-2020/"><strong>2020</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://ma.tt/2023/12/the-bag-post/"><strong>2023</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://ma.tt/2025/01/2025-bag/"><strong>2025</strong></a></p>
  668.  
  669.  
  670.  
  671. <p>What I’ve been carrying in my travel bag&nbsp;</p>
  672.  
  673.  
  674.  
  675. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2011/09/automattic-creed/"><strong>Why Your Company Should Have a Creed (2011)</strong></a></p>
  676.  
  677.  
  678.  
  679. <p>I&#8217;m really jazzed that dozens of companies have adopted this or similar ideas since then.</p>
  680.  
  681.  
  682.  
  683. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/"><strong>1.0 is the Loneliest Number (2010)</strong></a></p>
  684.  
  685.  
  686.  
  687. <p>On the importance of releasing quickly and getting feedback.</p>
  688.  
  689.  
  690.  
  691. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2010/05/twitter-api/"><strong>The Twitter API (2010)</strong></a></p>
  692.  
  693.  
  694.  
  695. <p>A discussion on the Twitter API missing the boat on, as Jack Dorsey put it, becoming a protocol.</p>
  696.  
  697.  
  698.  
  699. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2010/02/i-miss-school/"><strong>I Miss School (2010)</strong></a></p>
  700.  
  701.  
  702.  
  703. <p>Just like they say, youth is wasted on the young, I think I squandered school when I was in it.</p>
  704.  
  705.  
  706.  
  707. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2009/08/starting-a-bank/"><strong>What Startup Idea Would I suggest? Start a Bank (2009)</strong></a></p>
  708.  
  709.  
  710.  
  711. <p>There’s been a lot of action in the payments space since 2009. For new companies, we have Square (2009), Stripe (2010), and Wealthsimple (2014), among others. Ally Bank (rebranded from GMAC in 2010) has also been trying to provide a modern customer-focused experience.</p>
  712.  
  713.  
  714.  
  715. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2009/08/kill-your-community/"><strong>Six Steps to Kill Your Community (2009)</strong></a></p>
  716.  
  717.  
  718.  
  719. <p>Platform and product anti-patterns.</p>
  720.  
  721.  
  722.  
  723. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2009/07/not-lonely-at-all/"><strong>In Defense of the GPL for Open Source Projects (2009)</strong></a></p>
  724.  
  725.  
  726.  
  727. <p>This was a response to a popular post about how GPL open source projects would lose out to projects under licenses like MIT, BSD, and Apache. I didn’t agree then and I don’t agree now.&nbsp;</p>
  728.  
  729.  
  730.  
  731. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2009/06/the-way-i-work-annotated/"><strong>The Way I Work (2009)</strong></a></p>
  732.  
  733.  
  734.  
  735. <p>Self explanatory <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
  736.  
  737.  
  738.  
  739. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2008/05/infrastructure-as-competitive-advantage/"><strong>Infrastructure as Competitive Advantage (2008)</strong></a></p>
  740.  
  741.  
  742.  
  743. <p>On the importance of performance, reliability, and security. This was a core priority for us and it shows. <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We dominate the competition on third-party performance comparisons&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/danluu/status/1890232671084900643" target="_blank">at the platform level</a>&nbsp;and on&nbsp;<a href="https://danluu.com/slow-device/" target="_blank">the default user experience,</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/real-wordpress-security/" target="_blank">our security is top-notch</a>.</span></p>
  744.  
  745.  
  746.  
  747. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2007/07/price-of-freedom/"><strong>The Price of Freedom and Open Source Licenses (2007)</strong><strong><br /></strong><strong><br /></strong></a>A response to a user who wanted the ability to remove GPL freedoms from WordPress.</p>
  748.  
  749.  
  750.  
  751. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2007/07/on-php/"><strong>The PHP5 Transition (2007)</strong></a></p>
  752.  
  753.  
  754.  
  755. <p>How PHP5 forced us to divert time and attention away from users to deal with migration costs.</p>
  756.  
  757.  
  758.  
  759. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2007/03/kapor-vs-zuckerberg/"><strong>Mitch Kapor vs. Mark Zuckerberg (2007)</strong></a></p>
  760.  
  761.  
  762.  
  763. <p>At Startup School, Kapor advocated for having team diversity while Zuckerberg advocated for a “young and technical” because the best work comes from young people. Now that Facebook (Meta) has grown up, Zuckerberg is doing what Kapor said companies should do and not what Zuckerberg said companies should do! Zuckerberg’s trusted people aren’t young anymore and aren’t being replaced by the young.</p>
  764.  
  765.  
  766.  
  767. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2007/01/relevant-sun/"><strong>Sun Isn’t Relevant to Startups (2007)</strong></a><strong>, and </strong><a href="https://ma.tt/2007/01/sun-followup/"><strong>Followup (2007)</strong></a></p>
  768.  
  769.  
  770.  
  771. <p>A discussion of Sun’s Startup Essentials program and Jonathan Schwartz&#8217;s (then CEO of Sun) reply.</p>
  772.  
  773.  
  774.  
  775. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2006/04/feed-validator/"><strong>The RSS Feed Validator is Dead to Me (2006)</strong></a></p>
  776.  
  777.  
  778.  
  779. <p>The RSS 2.0 feed validator is old news today but the experience here is a good example of why people didn’t take any of these validators seriously and they’re all old news</p>
  780.  
  781.  
  782.  
  783. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2006/03/hours-and-work/"><strong>There’s No Correlation Between Hours Worked and Work Done (2006)</strong></a></p>
  784.  
  785.  
  786.  
  787. <p>Self explanatory <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
  788.  
  789.  
  790.  
  791. <p><a href="https://ma.tt/2005/11/hidden-costs/"><strong>Should We Have Hidden Options? (2005)</strong></a></p>
  792.  
  793.  
  794.  
  795. <p>A discussion of the hidden cost of hidden options.</p>
  796.  
  797.  
  798.  
  799. <p>We probably missed some, if there’s a post you think should be included leave it in the comments.</p>
  800. ]]></content>
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  804. <thr:total>5</thr:total>
  805. </entry>
  806. <entry>
  807. <author>
  808. <name>Matt</name>
  809. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  810. </author>
  811.  
  812. <title type="html"><![CDATA[6.8]]></title>
  813. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/04/cecil/" />
  814.  
  815. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=141353</id>
  816. <updated>2025-04-17T09:19:36Z</updated>
  817. <published>2025-04-17T09:19:36Z</published>
  818. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="WordPress" />
  819. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[WordPress 6.8 Cecil is out, and it&#8217;s a great release. It&#8217;s unbelievable that it&#8217;s already been downloaded over 6 million times as I write this. That feeling never gets old. It&#8217;s a funny time in WordPress because there are a lot of really interesting open questions: Some of these broad changes are mixed. At one &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/04/cecil/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">6.8</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  820.  
  821. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/04/cecil/"><![CDATA[
  822. <p><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2025/04/cecil/">WordPress 6.8 Cecil is out</a>, and it&#8217;s a great release. It&#8217;s unbelievable that it&#8217;s already <a href="https://wordpress.org/download/counter/">been downloaded over 6 million times as I write this</a>. That feeling never gets old.</p>
  823.  
  824.  
  825.  
  826. <p>It&#8217;s a funny time in WordPress because there are a lot of  really interesting open questions:</p>
  827.  
  828.  
  829.  
  830. <ul class="wp-block-list">
  831. <li>Can we iterate faster with canonical plugins?</li>
  832.  
  833.  
  834.  
  835. <li>What&#8217;s the fun thing we can put in to celebrate 7.0, and when will that be? (I was rooting for real-time co-editing like Notion/Canva/Google Docs.)</li>
  836.  
  837.  
  838.  
  839. <li>How can we use AI to automate our manual work around WordPress.org?</li>
  840.  
  841.  
  842.  
  843. <li>Can AI help us make 60k+ open source plugins and themes in the directory more secure? (I think so.)</li>
  844.  
  845.  
  846.  
  847. <li>What should we do with our 13k issue backlog? (That&#8217;s a lot of bug gardening.)</li>
  848.  
  849.  
  850.  
  851. <li>How will AI change how people build and update sites?</li>
  852.  
  853.  
  854.  
  855. <li>Just like RSS and web standards supercharged WordPress for the podcasting and search revolutions, what standards or APIs can we ship to help 40%+ of the web work with AI agents? (Plus an entire rabbit hole of all the new sloppy crawlers using so many resources.)</li>
  856. </ul>
  857.  
  858.  
  859.  
  860. <p>Some of these broad changes are mixed. At one point, I used Google to search for things and would visit their top result, which is great for website owners. Nowadays, Google pulls almost everything I need into the results page, so I don&#8217;t see as many random sites. But on <a href="https://www.perplexity.ai/">Perplexity</a>, sometimes I&#8217;ll read the answer and then visit 4-5 of the sources it cites to learn more, so I&#8217;m visiting 4-5x more random websites, usually powered by WordPress, than I would have even in the early days of Google. We don&#8217;t know how this all plays out yet.</p>
  861.  
  862.  
  863.  
  864. <p>These questions are also against the backdrop of some of the brightest minds in WordPress spending more time with legal code than computer code, which could last until 2027 or longer with appeals. </p>
  865.  
  866.  
  867.  
  868. <p>Speaking for myself, I was in my first deposition today. I really appreciated the due process and decorum of the rule of law, and just like code, law has a million little quirks, global variables, loaded libraries, and esoteric terminology. But wow, after a full day of that, I&#8217;m mentally exhausted. Hence, I&#8217;m posting about 6.8 after it&#8217;s had 6 million downloads. I&#8217;m more impressed than ever by what smart lawyers do, and the entire thing, though sometimes imperfect and frustrating, is a blessing to our democracy. However, I can&#8217;t wait to return to spending the plurality of my days with engineers and designers again. I&#8217;m sure many other folks in the WordPress community would agree.</p>
  869. ]]></content>
  871. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/04/cecil/#comments" thr:count="13" />
  872. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/04/cecil/feed/atom/" thr:count="13" />
  873. <thr:total>13</thr:total>
  874. </entry>
  875. <entry>
  876. <author>
  877. <name>Matt</name>
  878. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  879. </author>
  880.  
  881. <title type="html"><![CDATA[AI Site Builder]]></title>
  882. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/04/ai-site-builder/" />
  883.  
  884. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=141197</id>
  885. <updated>2025-04-09T17:14:06Z</updated>
  886. <published>2025-04-09T17:14:06Z</published>
  887. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="WordPress.com" />
  888. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The long-anticipated &#8220;Big Sky&#8221; AI site builder on WordPress.com went live today. It combines several models and can create logos, site designs, typography, color schemes, and content. It&#8217;s an entirely new way to interact with and edit a brand-new or existing WordPress site. This AI agent will make WordPress accessible to an entirely new generation &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/04/ai-site-builder/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">AI Site Builder</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  889.  
  890. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/04/ai-site-builder/"><![CDATA[
  891. <p>The long-anticipated <a href="https://wordpress.com/ai-website-builder/?ref=blog">&#8220;Big Sky&#8221; AI site builder on WordPress.com went live today</a>. It combines several models and can create logos, site designs, typography, color schemes, and content. It&#8217;s an entirely new way to interact with and edit a brand-new or existing WordPress site. This AI agent will make WordPress accessible to an entirely new generation and class of customers, and it will be a power tool for professionals to do things in minutes that used to take them hours.</p>
  892. ]]></content>
  894. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/04/ai-site-builder/#comments" thr:count="17" />
  895. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/04/ai-site-builder/feed/atom/" thr:count="17" />
  896. <thr:total>17</thr:total>
  897. </entry>
  898. <entry>
  899. <author>
  900. <name>Matt</name>
  901. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  902. </author>
  903.  
  904. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Automattic Operating System]]></title>
  905. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/aos/" />
  906.  
  907. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=140810</id>
  908. <updated>2025-03-21T22:15:05Z</updated>
  909. <published>2025-03-21T22:15:05Z</published>
  910. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Automattic" />
  911. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I was interviewed by Inc magazine for almost two hours where we covered a lot of great topics for entrepreneurs but almost none of it made it into the weird hit piece they published, however since both the journalist and I had recording of the interview I&#8217;ve decided to adapt some parts of it into &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/aos/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Automattic Operating System</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  912.  
  913. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/03/aos/"><![CDATA[
  914. <p><em>I was interviewed by Inc magazine for almost two hours where we covered a lot of great topics for entrepreneurs but almost none of it made it into the <a href="https://ma.tt/2024/12/inc-hit-piece/">weird hit piece they published</a>, however since both the journalist and I had recording of the interview I&#8217;ve decided to adapt some parts of it into a series of blog posts, think of it as the Inc Article That Could Have Been. This bit talks about some of the meta-work that myself and the Bridge team at Automattic do.</em><br><br>At Automattic, the most important product I work on is the company itself. I&#8217;ve started referring to it as the &#8220;Automattic Operating System.&#8221; Not in the technical sense like Linux, but the meta layer the company runs on. The company isn&#8217;t WordPress.com or Beeper or Pocket Casts or any one thing. I&#8217;m responsible for the culture of the people who build those things, building the things that build those things. It&#8217;s our hiring, our HR processes, our expenses, the onboarding docs; it&#8217;s all of the details that make up the employee experience — all the stuff that shapes every employee&#8217;s day-to-day experience.</p>
  915.  
  916.  
  917.  
  918. <p>Take expense reports. If you&#8217;ve got to spend two hours taking pictures of receipts and something like that, that&#8217;s a waste of time. You&#8217;re not helping a customer there. We switched to a system where everyone just gets a credit card. It does all the reporting and accounting stuff automatically. You just swipe the card and it just automatically files an expense report. Sometimes there&#8217;s an exception and you have to work with the accounting rules, but it just works and automates the whole process most of the time.</p>
  919.  
  920.  
  921.  
  922. <p>Another commonly overlooked detail is the offer letter. We think so much about the design of our websites and our products. We have designers work on that and we put a lot of care and thought into it. But I realized we didn&#8217;t have the same attention to detail on our offer letter. When you think about it, getting an offer letter from a company and deciding to take it is a major life decision, something you only do a handful of times in your life.  This is one of the things that determines your life path. Our offer letter was just made by attorneys and HR. No designer had looked at it right. We hadn&#8217;t really thought about it from a product experience point of view. And so it was just this, generic document with bad typography and not great design. But it&#8217;s important, so one of the things we did was redesign it. Now it has a nice letterhead, great typography, and it&#8217;s designed for the end user.<br><br>I realized that the salary and stuff was buried in paragraph two. It was just a small thing in the document! Well, what&#8217;s key when you&#8217;re deciding whether to take a job? Start date, salary, you know, that sort of thing, so we put the important parts at the very top.</p>
  923.  
  924.  
  925.  
  926. <p>And then there&#8217;s the legal language. All the legal stuff, which is different in every country. We have people in 90 countries, so there&#8217;s all the legal stuff that goes in there. And then it has this nudge inspired by the behavioral economics book, Predictably Irrational.<br><br>There&#8217;s the story about how, if you have an ethics statement above where you sign the test or something, people cheat less. So I thought, well, what&#8217;s our equivalent of that? <a href="https://ma.tt/2011/09/automattic-creed/">We have the Automattic Creed</a>. It&#8217;s an important part of our culture. So we put the creed in, it says</p>
  927.  
  928.  
  929.  
  930. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  931. <p>I will never stop learning. I won’t just work on things that are assigned to me. I know there’s no such thing as a status quo. I will build our business sustainably through passionate and loyal customers. I will never pass up an opportunity to help out a colleague, and I’ll remember the days before I knew everything. I am more motivated by impact than money, and I know that Open Source is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation. I will communicate as much as possible, because it’s the oxygen of a distributed company. I am in a marathon, not a sprint, and no matter how far away the goal is, the only way to get there is by putting one foot in front of another every day. Given time, there is no problem that’s insurmountable.</p>
  932. </blockquote>
  933.  
  934.  
  935.  
  936. <p>It&#8217;s not legally binding, but it&#8217;s written in the first person, you read it and you kind of identify with it and then you sign below that. We want people who work at the company who identify with our core values and our core values really are in the creed.</p>
  937.  
  938.  
  939.  
  940. <p>These sorts of things are key to our culture. And they&#8217;re universal. Again, we have people from over 90 countries. These are very different cultures, yes, and very different historical backgrounds and cultural makeups. But what&#8217;s universal? We have our philosophies that we apply every day regardless of where you were born or where you work.</p>
  941. ]]></content>
  943. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/aos/#comments" thr:count="7" />
  944. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/aos/feed/atom/" thr:count="7" />
  945. <thr:total>7</thr:total>
  946. </entry>
  947. <entry>
  948. <author>
  949. <name>Matt</name>
  950. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  951. </author>
  952.  
  953. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Radiohead]]></title>
  954. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/radiohead/" />
  955.  
  956. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=140773</id>
  957. <updated>2025-03-19T23:58:10Z</updated>
  958. <published>2025-03-19T23:06:02Z</published>
  959. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Asides" />
  960. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It&#8217;s so funny that my random re-engagement with Radiohead re-emergence coincides with them doing a new entity that might mean something. I did a poll on Twitter and people preferred OK Computer to Kid A 78%! Grok told me: &#8220;The band has recently registered a new limited liability partnership (LLP) named RHEUK25, which includes all &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/radiohead/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Radiohead</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  961.  
  962. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/03/radiohead/"><![CDATA[
  963. <p>It&#8217;s so funny that my random re-engagement with Radiohead re-emergence coincides with them <a href="https://pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-members-form-new-llp-historically-a-telltale-sign-of-new-activity/">doing a new entity that might mean something</a>. I did a <a href="https://x.com/photomatt/status/1901705209040011357">poll on Twitter and people preferred</a> OK Computer to Kid A 78%! </p>
  964.  
  965.  
  966.  
  967. <p>Grok told me: &#8220;The band has recently registered a new limited liability partnership (LLP) named RHEUK25, which includes all five members—Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, and Philip Selway. This move is notable because Radiohead has historically created similar business entities before announcing new albums, tours, or reissues.&#8221;</p>
  968. ]]></content>
  970. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/radiohead/#comments" thr:count="0" />
  971. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/radiohead/feed/atom/" thr:count="0" />
  972. <thr:total>0</thr:total>
  973. </entry>
  974. <entry>
  975. <author>
  976. <name>Matt</name>
  977. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  978. </author>
  979.  
  980. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Dalio &#038; Benioff in Singapore]]></title>
  981. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/dalio-benioff/" />
  982.  
  983. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=140704</id>
  984. <updated>2025-03-17T01:55:49Z</updated>
  985. <published>2025-03-15T20:46:22Z</published>
  986. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Asides" />
  987. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[With the world changing so quickly, it&#8217;s hard to find alpha, but the best way is by following the brightest thinkers. This CNBC interview with Ray Dalio and Marc Benioff is good, but it&#8217;s way better if you go to the livestream about 25 minutes in and see the full discussion without the editing. You &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/dalio-benioff/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Dalio &#38; Benioff in Singapore</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  988.  
  989. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/03/dalio-benioff/"><![CDATA[
  990. <p>With the world changing so quickly, it&#8217;s hard to find alpha,  but the best way is by following the brightest thinkers. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5pF60yUfw0">This CNBC interview with Ray Dalio and Marc Benioff is good</a>, but it&#8217;s way better if you <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4XTvLZJFcA">go to the livestream about 25 minutes in and see the full discussion without the editing</a>. You hear what these great thinkers actually think, rather than what an editor thought you&#8217;d enjoy. A little bit of friction gets you a lot more information.</p>
  991. ]]></content>
  993. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/dalio-benioff/#comments" thr:count="0" />
  994. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/dalio-benioff/feed/atom/" thr:count="0" />
  995. <thr:total>0</thr:total>
  996. </entry>
  997. <entry>
  998. <author>
  999. <name>Matt</name>
  1000. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  1001. </author>
  1002.  
  1003. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Real WordPress Security]]></title>
  1004. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/real-wordpress-security/" />
  1005.  
  1006. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=140118</id>
  1007. <updated>2025-03-08T11:07:49Z</updated>
  1008. <published>2025-03-08T11:07:49Z</published>
  1009. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="WordPress" />
  1010. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[One thing you&#8217;ll see on every host that offers WordPress is claims about how secure they are, however they don&#8217;t put their money where their mouth is. When you dig deeper, if your site actually gets hacked they&#8217;ll hit you with remediation fees that can go from hundreds to thousands of dollars. They may try &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/real-wordpress-security/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Real WordPress Security</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  1011.  
  1012. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/03/real-wordpress-security/"><![CDATA[
  1013. <p>One thing you&#8217;ll see on every host that offers WordPress is claims about how secure they are, however they don&#8217;t put their money where their mouth is. When you dig deeper, if your site actually gets hacked they&#8217;ll hit you with remediation fees that can go from hundreds to thousands of dollars.</p>
  1014.  
  1015.  
  1016.  
  1017. <p>They may try to sell you a security plan that <a href="https://www.godaddy.com/web-security/website-security">for example at Godaddy goes from $300 to $700 a year on top of your hosting</a>. (Don&#8217;t be fooled by the low entry price, look at renewal.) It&#8217;s <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/16yqtsj/my_websites_has_been_hacked_malwares_has_been/">heartbreaking to hear stories</a> of non-technical people forced into these high fees to fix something their host should have prevented in the first place.</p>
  1018.  
  1019.  
  1020.  
  1021. <p>When a host is powered by <a href="https://wp.cloud/">WP.cloud</a>, it doesn&#8217;t need to do this because hacks are so incredibly rare. (That&#8217;s why it may appear more expensive, but the total cost of ownership or being a WP.cloud-powered host is much lower when you factor in human time.)</p>
  1022.  
  1023.  
  1024.  
  1025. <p>One problem we&#8217;ve had on <a href="https://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a> is we do all these amazing things and don&#8217;t tell anyone about it, something we&#8217;re trying to change with our focus this year on developers and developer tooling. One great example is <strong>we&#8217;re so confident about our security, if your site gets hacked we&#8217;ll fix it for free! </strong>We&#8217;ve actually been doing this for the better part of a decade, just never mentioned it anywhere.</p>
  1026.  
  1027.  
  1028.  
  1029. <p><a href="https://pressable.com/">Pressable</a> (which is WP.cloud-powered) does a better job talking about these things and <a href="https://pressable.com/features/manage/wordpress-hack-recovery-assistance/">has a nice landing page on malware cleaning and hack recovery</a> that says essentially the same thing.</p>
  1030.  
  1031.  
  1032.  
  1033. <p>WordPress has done a ton over the years to move the hosting industry around upgrading PHP and MySQL, PHP extensions, free SSL, and in general using our clout to advocate for user rights and freedoms from even the largest hosting companies, and I&#8217;m proud to say there are a good number, for example the ones you see at WordCamps, that have not just embraced these values but actually been more commercially successful as they&#8217;ve done so. I hope security and auto-upgrades not just for core but for plugins and themes becomes the next standard. (<a href="https://jetpack.com/features/security/automatic-plugin-updates/">Jetpack does this</a> for free, <a href="https://cloudup.com/cdrjMTE6nfa">some hosts charge $100/yr per site</a>.)</p>
  1034. ]]></content>
  1036. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/real-wordpress-security/#comments" thr:count="9" />
  1037. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/real-wordpress-security/feed/atom/" thr:count="9" />
  1038. <thr:total>9</thr:total>
  1039. </entry>
  1040. <entry>
  1041. <author>
  1042. <name>Matt</name>
  1043. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  1044. </author>
  1045.  
  1046. <title type="html"><![CDATA[On Lenny&#8217;s Podcast]]></title>
  1047. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/lennys-podcast/" />
  1048.  
  1049. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=139675</id>
  1050. <updated>2025-03-04T19:55:55Z</updated>
  1051. <published>2025-03-04T14:19:50Z</published>
  1052. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Press" />
  1053. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny&#8217;s Newsletter, probably best known for its writing on growth and product management, which really means it covered everything you need to create a great company. It expanded into a really well-done podcast; Lenny has always had a knack for finding the best &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/lennys-podcast/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">On Lenny&#8217;s Podcast</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  1054.  
  1055. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/03/lennys-podcast/"><![CDATA[
  1056. <p>One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been <a href="https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/">Lenny&#8217;s Newsletter</a>, probably best known for its writing on growth and product management, which really means it covered everything you need to create a great company. </p>
  1057.  
  1058.  
  1059.  
  1060. <p>It expanded into a really well-done podcast; Lenny has always had a knack for finding the best guests and asking the best questions, so when he invited me on I was very excited.</p>
  1061.  
  1062.  
  1063.  
  1064. <p>He really wanted to address some of the things that people said I wasn&#8217;t being asked, so we do touch on the WP Engine / Silver Lake attacks, but we also covered a lot of my philosophy of why open source is important, philanthropy, and why you should build a movement, not just a product.</p>
  1065.  
  1066.  
  1067.  
  1068. <figure class="wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1069. <iframe loading="lazy" title="Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand" width="604" height="340" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fves5chVZRA?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  1070. </div></figure>
  1071.  
  1072.  
  1073.  
  1074. <p>You can <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fves5chVZRA">watch it on YouTube</a>, or <a href="https://pca.st/episode/ebb90f87-32fb-4a11-9f6e-30e51296d3fb">listen to it on your favorite podcast app like Pocket Casts</a>.</p>
  1075.  
  1076.  
  1077.  
  1078. <p>Some others he has done that I really enjoyed are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTr21kgCFF4">Nan Yu from Linear</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOGK1nlHdFo">Marc Benioff from Salesforce</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfEEcssu304">Katie Dill from Stripe</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDq6_CPaRjM">Mihika Kapoor from Figma</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egdYKLBswgk">Drew Houston from Dropbox</a>, and of course the famous <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ef0juAMqoE">Founder Mode one with Brian Chesky</a>.</p>
  1079. ]]></content>
  1081. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/lennys-podcast/#comments" thr:count="2" />
  1082. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/03/lennys-podcast/feed/atom/" thr:count="2" />
  1083. <thr:total>2</thr:total>
  1084. </entry>
  1085. <entry>
  1086. <author>
  1087. <name>Matt</name>
  1088. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  1089. </author>
  1090.  
  1091. <title type="html"><![CDATA[WordCamp Asia and Maha Kumbh Mela]]></title>
  1092. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/wcasia-kumbh/" />
  1093.  
  1094. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=138006</id>
  1095. <updated>2025-02-22T06:02:39Z</updated>
  1096. <published>2025-02-22T06:01:19Z</published>
  1097. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Asides" />
  1098. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been fantastic being in the Philippines for this year&#8217;s WordCamp Asia. We have attendees from 71 countries, over 1,800 tickets sold, and contributor day had over 700 people! It&#8217;s an interesting contrast to US and EU WordCamps as well in that the audience is definitely a lot younger, and there&#8217;s very little interest in &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/wcasia-kumbh/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">WordCamp Asia and Maha Kumbh Mela</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  1099.  
  1100. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/02/wcasia-kumbh/"><![CDATA[
  1101. <p>It&#8217;s been fantastic being in the Philippines for <a href="https://asia.wordcamp.org/2025/">this year&#8217;s WordCamp Asia</a>. We have attendees from 71 countries, over 1,800 tickets sold, and contributor day had over 700 people! It&#8217;s an interesting contrast to US and EU WordCamps as well in that the audience is definitely a lot younger, and there&#8217;s very little interest in &#8220;wpdrama&#8221; du jour, in fact I&#8217;ve had tons of amazing conversations of support and talking about the strength and growth of the community.</p>
  1102.  
  1103.  
  1104.  
  1105. <p>Some of the earliest international WordCamps I went to were in Manila and Davao, back in 2008. (I&#8217;m going to share some pictures at the start of my talk.) Between that and spending lots of time in Daly City when I moved to San Francisco when I was 20 I have developed a fondness for the cuisine, creativity, family orientation, and warmth of the culture here.</p>
  1106.  
  1107.  
  1108.  
  1109. <p>After this I&#8217;ll be taking a bit of time off for a trip to the big Hindu religious pilgrimage in India, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbh_Mela">Maha Kumbh Mela</a>, which is currently on a 144 cycle. It&#8217;s the largest human gathering in the world, with some days measured with tens of millions of people visiting. I&#8217;ll be returning to my Photomatt roots as well and bringing my big camera rig, right now a Nikon Z 7II, and two lenses: 24-70 2.8 and 70-200 2.8.</p>
  1110. ]]></content>
  1112. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/wcasia-kumbh/#comments" thr:count="7" />
  1113. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/wcasia-kumbh/feed/atom/" thr:count="7" />
  1114. <thr:total>7</thr:total>
  1115. </entry>
  1116. <entry>
  1117. <author>
  1118. <name>Matt</name>
  1119. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  1120. </author>
  1121.  
  1122. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Sun and shadows]]></title>
  1123. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/sun-and-shadows/" />
  1124.  
  1125. <id>https://ma.tt/2025/02/sun-and-shadows/</id>
  1126. <updated>2025-02-18T01:06:58Z</updated>
  1127. <published>2025-02-18T01:06:58Z</published>
  1128. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Asides" />
  1129. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[]]></summary>
  1130.  
  1131. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/02/sun-and-shadows/"><![CDATA[
  1132. <figure class="wp-block-image alignwide size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="604" height="702" data-attachment-id="137931" data-permalink="https://ma.tt/image-10/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/02/image.jpg?fit=768%2C892&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="768,892" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="image" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/02/image.jpg?fit=637%2C740&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/02/image.jpg?fit=604%2C702&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/02/image.jpg?resize=604%2C702&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1" class="wp-image-137931" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/02/image.jpg?w=768&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/02/image.jpg?resize=637%2C740&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 637w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/02/image.jpg?resize=181%2C210&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 181w, https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2025/02/image.jpg?resize=396%2C460&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 396w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px" /></figure>
  1133. ]]></content>
  1135. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/sun-and-shadows/#comments" thr:count="6" />
  1136. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/sun-and-shadows/feed/atom/" thr:count="6" />
  1137. <thr:total>6</thr:total>
  1138. </entry>
  1139. <entry>
  1140. <author>
  1141. <name>Matt</name>
  1142. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  1143. </author>
  1144.  
  1145. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Scale]]></title>
  1146. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/scale/" />
  1147.  
  1148. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=137506</id>
  1149. <updated>2025-02-14T00:40:05Z</updated>
  1150. <published>2025-02-14T00:40:05Z</published>
  1151. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Asides" />
  1152. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[In high school when 5% of your class doesn&#8217;t like you it&#8217;s like 3-5 people. Running a company of 1,700+ when 5% doesn&#8217;t like you, that&#8217;s 85 people! That fills a room. 150k followers and 5% don&#8217;t like you now you have a small stadium of 7,500 people. It&#8217;s still 5%.]]></summary>
  1153.  
  1154. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/02/scale/"><![CDATA[
  1155. <p>In high school when 5% of your class doesn&#8217;t like you it&#8217;s like 3-5 people. </p>
  1156.  
  1157.  
  1158.  
  1159. <p>Running a company of 1,700+ when 5% doesn&#8217;t like you, that&#8217;s 85 people! That fills a room. </p>
  1160.  
  1161.  
  1162.  
  1163. <p>150k followers and 5% don&#8217;t like you now you have a small stadium of 7,500 people. </p>
  1164.  
  1165.  
  1166.  
  1167. <p>It&#8217;s still 5%.</p>
  1168. ]]></content>
  1170. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/scale/#comments" thr:count="4" />
  1171. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/scale/feed/atom/" thr:count="4" />
  1172. <thr:total>4</thr:total>
  1173. </entry>
  1174. <entry>
  1175. <author>
  1176. <name>Matt</name>
  1177. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  1178. </author>
  1179.  
  1180. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Hash tables]]></title>
  1181. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/hash-tables/" />
  1182.  
  1183. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=137372</id>
  1184. <updated>2025-02-12T22:03:25Z</updated>
  1185. <published>2025-02-12T22:03:25Z</published>
  1186. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="Asides" />
  1187. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[“You didn’t just come up with a cool hash table,” he remembers telling Krapivin. “You’ve actually completely wiped out a 40-year-old conjecture!” There&#8217;s a delightful article on an undergraduate discovering an optimization in a very basic computer science principle.]]></summary>
  1188.  
  1189. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/02/hash-tables/"><![CDATA[
  1190. <p>“You didn’t just come up with a cool hash table,” he remembers telling Krapivin. “You’ve actually completely wiped out a 40-year-old conjecture!” <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/">There&#8217;s a delightful article on an undergraduate discovering an optimization in a very basic computer science principle</a>.</p>
  1191. ]]></content>
  1193. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/hash-tables/#comments" thr:count="0" />
  1194. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/hash-tables/feed/atom/" thr:count="0" />
  1195. <thr:total>0</thr:total>
  1196. </entry>
  1197. <entry>
  1198. <author>
  1199. <name>Matt</name>
  1200. <uri>http://ma.tt/</uri>
  1201. </author>
  1202.  
  1203. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Ed Catmull on Change]]></title>
  1204. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/ed-catmull-on-change/" />
  1205.  
  1206. <id>https://ma.tt/?p=137101</id>
  1207. <updated>2025-02-10T11:14:54Z</updated>
  1208. <published>2025-02-10T05:38:10Z</published>
  1209. <category scheme="https://ma.tt" term="WordPress" />
  1210. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me by my colleague Dave Martin a while back and I finally got around to it. There&#8217;s an interesting story in it where George Lucas had asked him to develop a film editing system that was digital. While &#8230; <a href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/ed-catmull-on-change/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Ed Catmull on Change</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></summary>
  1211.  
  1212. <content type="html" xml:base="https://ma.tt/2025/02/ed-catmull-on-change/"><![CDATA[
  1213. <p>I&#8217;ve been really enjoying the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspiration/dp/0812993012">Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar</a>, it was recommended to me by my colleague <a href="https://davemart.in/">Dave Martin</a> a while back and I finally got around to it. There&#8217;s an interesting story in it where George Lucas had asked him to develop a film editing system that was digital.</p>
  1214.  
  1215.  
  1216.  
  1217. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  1218. <p>While George wanted this new video-editing system in place, the film editors at Lucasfilm did not. They were perfectly happy with the system they had already mastered, which involved actually cutting film into snippets with razor blades and then pasting them back together. They couldn&#8217;t have been less interested in making changes that would slow them down in the short term. They took comfort in their familiar ways, and change meant being uncomfortable. [&#8230;] If left up to the editors, no new tool would ever be designed and no improvements would be possible.</p>
  1219. </blockquote>
  1220.  
  1221.  
  1222.  
  1223. <p>This made me think a lot about the early days of <a href="https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/">Gutenberg</a> and the huge resistance it had in the community, including causing the fork of ClassicPress. Now that we&#8217;re much further along there&#8217;s a pretty widespread acceptance of Gutenberg, and it&#8217;s responsible for the vast majority of all WP posts and pages made, however if we had taken a vote for whether it should happen or not, it probably wouldn&#8217;t have ever gotten off the ground.</p>
  1224.  
  1225.  
  1226.  
  1227. <p>What’s funny is if you go back even further, using a visual WYSIWYG editor in the first place was very controversial, and many people didn’t want the classic editor brought into WordPress.</p>
  1228. ]]></content>
  1230. <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/ed-catmull-on-change/#comments" thr:count="8" />
  1231. <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ma.tt/2025/02/ed-catmull-on-change/feed/atom/" thr:count="8" />
  1232. <thr:total>8</thr:total>
  1233. </entry>
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