One year ago today, I joined Automattic as a product manager focused on WordPress.

Automattic is as unique as they come. As a distributed company with a flat organizational structure and a healthy culture of synergistic innovation—ideas, thoughts, and feedback come from anyone, anywhere, and anytime.

This environment generates a jet stream of knowledge, information, and experiences—kindly referred to as the “chaos” internally—that you, as a high-functioning team member, choose how to absorb. You communicate extensively; it’s an expectation. And just about everything is recorded in some form or fashion, for anyone else to digest.

So yes, there is a bit of chaos… and I like it.

If you embrace “the Automattic way”, there is opportunity to dial in the intersection of passion, imagination, and productivity, to make a tangible impact on many different projects and efforts.

And if you’re excited about something, you share it with folks and see where it lands. Prototype, pitch, and move fast.

I’ve come to embrace this chaos, this imperfect storm.

All in on WordPress

Having contributed to WordPress in some fashion for over a decade, I found the shift to working wholesale on the project welcoming. There’s much to do.

There are naturally parallels between the WordPress community and Automattic. If you think about it, there’s a sort of friendly “chaos” to the wide breath of what WordPress encompasses. There are thousands of diverse people with a multitude of ideas coming together to build a better, open source, way to publish.

Here’s to tomorrow

A year later, I’m inspired as ever, energized, and committed to relentlessly democratizing publishing, commerce, and now messaging—with the recent addition of Texts.

Each day I show up as curious as ever, working on some of the best work of my career; couldn’t ask for much more than that.

So here’s to tomorrow.