{"id":632,"date":"2013-09-17T12:44:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=632"},"modified":"2013-09-29T22:29:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T22:29:50","slug":"the-year-without-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2013\/09\/the-year-without-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler: We All Wear Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1118660633\/?tag=scottberkunco-20\"><em>The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work<\/em><\/a> is a behind-the-scenes look at our company, <a href=\"http:\/\/automattic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Automattic<\/a>, and its unique culture\u2014it comes out today, and I really think you should read it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s packed with great lessons for your business, but my recommendation is more self-serving: after nearly 3 years working at Automattic, I&#8217;d really prefer to never again have to explain that:\u00a01) yes, we are a real company making real (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantcast.com\/top-sites\/US?jump-to=8\" target=\"_blank\">successful<\/a>) products, and 2) despite working from home most days, I actually do wear pants (and I&#8217;m pretty sure my coworkers do too).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1118660633\/?tag=scottberkunco-20\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"The Year Without Pants book cover\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1118660633.jpg?resize=300%2C447&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"447\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n50 million websites, or twenty percent of the entire web, use WordPress software. The force behind WordPress.com is a convention-defying company called Automattic, Inc., whose 190 employees work from anywhere in the world they wish, barely use email, and launch improvements to their products dozens of times a day.<\/p>\n<p>With a fraction of the resources of Google, Amazon, or Facebook, they have a similar impact on the future of the Internet. How is this possible? What&#8217;s different about how they work, and what can other companies learn from their methods?<\/p>\n<p>To find out, former Microsoft veteran Scott Berkun worked as a manager at WordPress.com, leading a team of young programmers developing new ideas.\u00a0<i>The Year Without Pants<\/i>\u00a0shares the secrets of WordPress.com&#8217;s phenomenal success from the inside. 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