{"id":154565,"date":"2013-09-17T04:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T11:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=154565"},"modified":"2013-09-17T04:48:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T11:48:23","slug":"the-year-without-pants-wordpress-com-and-the-future-of-work-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2013\/09\/17\/the-year-without-pants-wordpress-com-and-the-future-of-work-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work (review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-154565\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com-ebook\/dp\/B00DVJXI4M\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1377949596&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Year+without+pants\" target=\"_blank\">The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work (review)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author:<\/strong> <a id=\"contributorNameTriggerB001ILKGVSB00DVJXI4M\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scott-Berkun\/e\/B001ILKGVS\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">Scott Berkun<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>File Size:<\/b> 1931 KB<\/li>\n<li><b>Print Length:<\/b> 277 pages<\/li>\n<li><b>Page Numbers Source ISBN:<\/b> 1118660633<\/li>\n<li><b>Publisher:<\/b> Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (August 20, 2013)<\/li>\n<li><b>Language:<\/b> English<\/li>\n<li><b>ASIN:<\/b> B00DVJXI4M<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Loved this book! One of the fastest reads I&#8217;ve had lately, coupled with more highlighter and notes than I&#8217;ve had in a while.<\/p>\n<p>This is the story of the year (actually more than a year) that the author worked for Automattic, the company that does <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress.com<\/a>. If you&#8217;re looking for a different way to manage software development, this book may provide good clues. As a manager, I think there are lots of nuggets to learn from.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplePullQuote right\"><p>The inability to scale is one of the stupidest arguments against a possibly great idea: greatness rarely scales, and that&#8217;s part of what made it great in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For example, there are creative and support teams &#8211; support teams provide support for creatives, not the other way around; its more important to make teams like HR and Finance efficient for the creative teams to use than to make them efficient internally at the expense of the creative teams.<\/p>\n<p>One of my ah-ha moments was, &#8220;safeguards don&#8217;t make you safe; they make you lazy.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been thinking about Netflix injecting errors purposely into their production systems to force the teams to build solid code and learn to efficiently debug problems&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And given the craft of software development, &#8220;In all cases it is up to you as an employee to figure out how to be productive.&#8221; You pick and use the right tool for the right job in the right way &#8211; by enforcing standards we require the identical mediocrity among all staff instead of recognizing the craftsman who can achieve greatness if given the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Heck, I&#8217;ve already recommended this book to peers and execs above me. I think this is much more interesting than any of the books I&#8217;ve read about how Microsoft or Google work &#8211; this is much more &#8216;out there.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-154565\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 154565);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-154565\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-154565\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work (review) Author: Scott Berkun File Size: 1931 KB Print Length: 277 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1118660633 Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (August 20, 2013) Language: English ASIN: B00DVJXI4M Loved this book! 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