Category: work
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New Woo
I’m almost two weeks late (aside from sharing on LinkedIn) with this one but we did a thing at work. Introducing the new Woo: A revitalized brand for a new commerce landscape. Tamara goes over it in the post but this one has been a long time coming. It all happened internally, every team at…
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Seven years
Seven is my favourite number. I wouldn’t say lucky since I can’t tie any luck to it but it is a number I’m fond of. Looking back on my blog posts, as someone who is often fond of anniversaries or milestones, I only found my one and two year anniversary posts of joining Automattic, and…
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Screen reduction / remember to charge wireless Apple Magic Mouse
I moved to an iMac back in June since I rarely leave the house to work. It’s great, bigger screen, powerful to last me probably the next two years minimum, no worries about charging the battery… At the Grand Meet-up I got someone’s old wired Apple Keyboard since I wanted the physical numeric keypad version…
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Learn-ups
I’ve said it before, but the more I work at Automattic, the more I feel the Creed applies to me. This week, I’ll be ticking off a few parts of it and I did so twice today by holding learn-ups for some colleagues. I won’t just work on things that are assigned to me. I…
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First user research interview
I sat in on a user research call today. Brandon from Brnkl gave us some fantastic overview of his site and how he has things set up. User research is something I’ve known about for years but never participated in. Really glad I did, it was super nice to hear how our platform empowers someone…
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Doug breaks software
I have this third-person saying that “80% of the time, Doug will break software”. Job & I were starting on a “career discussion” type project in our 1:1 and I realised again how often during my, by some standards, pretty normal customer service/support career, that I’ve been allowed to try and break software over the…
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Calm kids
Both kids were at home today. Benj needed to stay off nursery to fully recover and H has an inservice day from school. Amazingly I did three hours of live chat without much of an interuption. That needs noted down, so proud of the kids
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Early mornings
…are no more. You know you're awake early when… pic.twitter.com/B31XOpmp36 — Doug (@dougaitken) July 25, 2016 Saw this tweet on my Timehop and a colleague messaged me just after 6am and I realised I haven’t had a proper early morning in some time. I used to get up 6/7am for live chat but on rotation,…
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Got a lock
After another “three year old has clearly been in my office” situation today, Kevin brought this when he came for dinner.I’m deadly serious. My office is getting locked.
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