My Kids are my New Music Discovery Engine

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The time had to come eventually. My kids are now one of my most effective means of discovering new music, which is absolutely awesome as far as I’m concerned. It’s about time actually!

Saving the occasional Bieber-slips (…), they have pretty good and eclectic tastes, ranging from electronica to alternative, old classics to experimental. This makes me quite proud since I perceive enjoying a wide range of musical genres as a good path to a multicultural vision of the World.

The last two albums they introduced me to were:

Never fear, I still have a few tricks up my sleeve and being an avid music listener myself, I’m sure to enlighten their repertoire with other musical treasures of my own for a long time to come.

But it sure feels great to now have a reciprocal relationship with them on the music front! :D

2010 Automattic Meetup

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Being a distributed company, the entire Automattic crew meets once a year so that we have an opportunity to interact with all of our peers (20+ new ones since last year) in person. This year’s meetup took place in Seaside, Florida.

As a quick anecdote, Seaside is where the 1998 movie “The Truman Show” was filmed. Stunning location. Great movie, by the way.

As per usual, we had a fantastic time together. Those events are always a wonderful reminder of how Automattic is THE best company in the World!

Our days were filled with socializing, individual flash talks on any subject (mine was “How Woodworking Made me a Better Programmer”), team projects/presentations and other activities.

All fantastic means of not only capturing the pulse of the company, its founders and employees, but also to learn so many things in such a fitting environment. I savored every minute of the trip, both from the personal as well as professional development perspectives.

To all my Automattician brother-in-arms, thank you for the time we shared, and looking forward to the upcoming year. Special props to Rose for having done such a bang-up job organizing the whole thing!

And to those who might be reading this and think how wonderful working with us would be: Think you have what it takes to join the team? Drop by our jobs page. The more, the merrier!