Your courage to do what’s right has to be greater than your fear of getting hurt.
A high schooler encounters racism when he tries to go to prom. Listen to Hasan Minhaj’s story here.
Hold Fast Your Dreams
Within your heart
Keep one still, secret spot
Where dreams may go,
And, sheltered so,
May thrive and grow
Where doubt and fear are not.
O keep a place apart,
Within your heart,
For little dreams to go!
I had an immediate, unexpected, and visceral reaction to this snippet from Louise Driscoll’s poem, Hold Fast Your Dreams. I could analyze it, but I won’t do that here and now.
(h/t Matt Mullenweg)
How To Ruin Your Life (Without Even Noticing That You Are)
“You ruin your life by tolerating it. At the end of the day you should be excited to be alive. When you settle for anything less than what you innately desire, you destroy the possibility that lives inside of you, and in that way you cheat both yourself and the world of your potential. “
Imagination
Me, all the time, with everything.
The Fog of Sadness
How I’m feeling right about now.
I know the fog of sadness will come. The knowing doesn’t make it any easier when it arrives.
It’s happened every year for the past five years. Sometimes it sets in the afternoon I arrive home, like today. Sometimes it sets in after I wake up from the post trip nap (last year’s “nap” was 18 hours long, due to sheer exhaustion from too much fun).
This year our annual all company meetup was held in Park City, Utah, and more than 250 people attended. This is a highlight of the year, because it’s often the only time that I’ll see many of my co-workers. We’re a distributed company, and everyone’s primary workspace is their home office. Oh, did I mention we have folks in thirty-five countries around the world? We’re really spread out. It’s a whirlwind of a week – learning at internally led code academy classes; project teams…
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One Year with Automattic
Today is my first anniversary with Automattic! I’ve already posted about how I feel as an Automattician, so I’ll keep this short and sweet. I’m thankful for everyone I’ve met, everything I’ve learned, and everywhere I’ve traveled. I look forward to many more wonderful years.
WordPress.com Terms of Service Meetup – Glasgow
This week I had the honour of playing semi-host to (a selection of) the combined forces of the WordPress Jetpack, legal, and Terms of Service teams.
There was Irn-Bru, bucky, pommes frites, castles, Garage, fish suppers, macaroon, gin, bottles of vodka, curry, big balls, easter eggs, single malt, World Cup failures, dancing lawyers, burgers, ayes, bathroom mood lighting, ampm soaps, tapas, and spam.
The WordPress.com Transparency Report
Our first transparency report has been published! #nerdingout
Automattic’s mission is to democratize publishing, and a fully informed citizenry is the foundation of any functioning democracy. Keeping our users and the public fully informed about our policies on responding to government requests has always been important to us — and now, more than ever, candor in this area is vitally important.
In keeping with these principles, we’re pleased to release our first transparency report. This initial report summarizes the number of government information requests, takedown demands, and national security requests that we received during the second half of 2013. In addition to giving our users full transparency about the volume of these requests, we also hope that publicly reporting our data will help hold all parties (including us) accountable.
A few highlights of our report:
Information Requests. For the second half of 2013, approximately 0.0001% of the 48 million sites that we host were subject to a…
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The Future Me
Let’s be honest, I’ll probably look way worse than this at 67.
WordPress.com: Proud Sponsor of an Event Near You
We kicked off 2013 with a mission to sponsor, attend, and speak at some of the world’s most exciting blogging and technology conferences. We wanted to connect with you — our users — by making our team available for live questions and support. And we’re always excited to hear more about all the innovative ways you are using WordPress. Today, we’re happy to report that we accomplished this goal.
Going global in 2013
Over the course of last year we sponsored thirty-four events in twenty-five cities across eight countries. At many of these events we programmed a hands-on workshop, led a session, or contributed to a panel. Throughout the year we met a diverse group of bloggers, designers, and developers who share our interest in making the web a better place. We had an amazing time.
With great conferences comes great swag.
Our 2013 events lineup started with the Modern…
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i want to go to there. 
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