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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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Distinguished HE Award
Almost every quarter in work, we have nominations for the Distinguished HE Award. This is a virtual award from peer voting for Happiness Engineers who have made an impact over the past quarter. The past quarter, I was a recipient of that, so now I have a cool image to share: I’ve long said I…
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Lifechat with Adam; fixing Netflix, eco, and home buying
In Automattic, we have a “life chat” Slack channel, it uses Donut, the same bot we use for onboarding, and it matches you with another person in the channel once a month. You can chat whenever and however you want, it’s a nice option to bring together people who otherwise wouldn’t interact much and gives…
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Annual GM badge & swag photo
Third time for the “I can’t believe this is my job” post. We have a ton of inclusion type pin badges this year, I went simple with the basics. Yes, that is a branded hotel room key…and I’m happy the data was pulled early for badges since my JPOP rotation ended at the start of…
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A change of course
Today marks two years since I started at Automattic and on Monday, I’ll be doing something new.
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Jeremey DuVall on “How All Hands Support Works Automattic”
The superb Jeremey DuVall explains how we bring everyone through Support at Automattic. This is timely as I’ve just started buddying my second (!!) initial Support Rotation. He’ll end up in another team doing JavaScript, but right now he is very eager to learn about our Customers and the contact we receive. For the initial three…
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First six weeks at Automattic
So today is pretty cool I've joined @automattic! https://t.co/48a5bCIRR7 — Doug (@dougaitken) June 29, 2016 Six weeks ago today I let the news fly. I’d spent over three hours a few nights before, on Slack with Matt, at the end of which, he offered me a full time position. How is the job? V v cool. Today:Helped…
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Hello world!
I decided to keep this post, and the initial text quoted below, as it is a reminder of how long I’ve been trying to keep up consistently blogging. As this is the original first post, you’ll notice the date at the bottom. Yes, I’ve been trying through various incarnations since even before that to have…
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