Author: Toni Schneider
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Behold the Schmobile!
Earlier this year, my son Ben (13) was getting ready to leave for a four week summercamp in the wilds of Minnesota. Three days before departure, disaster struck: Ben dislocated his left knee and camp was all of a sudden out. Left with four weeks of nothing to do and his siblings and many of…
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Long Now
I’ve been listening my way through an excellent series of podcasts at the Long Now Foundation (membership info). Three I’ve particularly enjoyed so far: Geoffrey B. West: “Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster” Edward O. Wilson: “The Social Conquest of Earth” Tim O’Reilly: “Birth of the Global Mind”
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Wolves
My friend Mary Ellen has a great op-ed piece in the New York Times today about why the world needs wolves. My favorite quote: No national park is big enough for wolves. She goes into greater depth on the important topic of wildlife conservation at a continental scale in her great new book The Spine…
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8 tips for a great company meetup
I just got back from an exhilarating, week long Automattic company meetup in San Diego. We’ve now done 9 full company meetups over the last 6 years (plus dozens of smaller team ones), and I wanted to write down some tips on how to run a company meetup while it’s fresh in my mind: 1.…
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More press
Forbes has a great article about Automattic, telling the story all the way from the beginning of WordPress through the founding and growth of Automattic. And here’s Matt’s reaction to it talking about the future of work.
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A distributed company
There were two articles published today about Automattic and our distributed setup: One in Business Week the other in the Wall Street Journal.
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Lunch buffet
When a kid (11) gets to pick from the lunch buffet (bonus points if you can guess what the white lumps are):
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Breakfast pizza
I’ve noticed a recent string of breakfast posts in my WordPress reader – here’s mine: