I hired a Virtual Assistant to train my delegation muscle. It was a huge success.
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What would you do if you had 5 months off?
In the 50th issue of my newsletter, I ponder my plans for the 5-month leave.
How to start your own podcast on WordPress.com
You DON’T NEED new gear, a studio, specialized software, or new skills to start a podcast.
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how you can start your own show on WordPress.com, and how to submit it to iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcasts.
VIPs secret weapon: the Post-It note.
Using Post-Its for note-taking during a face-to-face meeting lets you better control body language and enhance charisma.
Here are 7 reasons why post-its are superior to digital notes.
Communication, and other CIA Sabotage tactics
Open Communication is a powerful tool. It fuels creativity and collaboration, but if misused, it can turn into an influential sabotage tactic.
Watch your words.
A tale of two paywalls
Paid premium content is a great business model, but the paywalls you know from @NYT and other publishers may not work for you.
Here is what you need to know about paywalls for smaller sites.
Working from home – a primer to get your team started
Isolation is one of the best tools we have right now to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
This post is a crash course on Remote Work for a smaller team that is forced into this reality by COVID-19. Wash your hands.
Bring Your Own Friends – Dealing with loneliness when working from home
Remote Work is awesome. It is no doubt, the future of employment and for a good reason: It can solve environmental problems It opens up the access to suitable jobs for the people outside of a bigger city It’s just better for the human soul to avoid the trenches of office buildings all day, everyContinue reading “Bring Your Own Friends – Dealing with loneliness when working from home”
Book: The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
“How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare?” – Clock of the long now is a fantastic project focused on getting the humanity interested in thinking in the long-term.
So you want to work at Automattic.
I joined Automattic as JavaScript wrangler in October 2015. My hiring process lasted for about 3 months and was worth every second of it.
Here is a detailed account.