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" I'm really good at making software for publishing. "
Matt Mullenweg
Software
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" 130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working? "
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" I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months. "
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" In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate. "
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" A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own. "
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" There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets. "
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" Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs. "
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" Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading. "
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" I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out. "
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" For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die. "
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" If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that. "
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" I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from school in the afternoon. It's all about your output. "
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" Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired. "
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" The Google Voice service is a lifesaver for me. My actual phone number changes a lot, so having a canonical Google Voice number that doesn't change - it's actually my same number from high school - is indispensable. "
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" The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there's healthy import and export traffic both ways. "
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" Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography. "
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" I think it's good to have different locations for different modes you want to be in throughout the day, and to keep them separate. "
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" I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year. "
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" If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it. "
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" In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one. "
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" There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth. "
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