I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.
I really enjoy computer networking.
My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.
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.
Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.
There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one.
When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.
One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.
For me, open source is a moral thing.
The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.
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.
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.
In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.
The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition.
Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.
You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.
Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.
Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today.
I don't think BuddyPress will be something you use instead of your existing social networks... but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use.
