Leave A Trail

‘”Leave A Trail.” Tangible work products are critical, but they shouldn’t be artificial, and they don’t have to be in the form of long, dry prose. A picture representing the outcome of your conversation or even the conversation itself counts as a tangible, for example. A blog entry also counts. The key is that the artifact is a natural outcome of the work, not something artificial that is tacked on.’

Wrote Eugene Kim (emphasis mine) in reply to Tara Hunt’s interesting post Losing my Mojo.

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Ladder of Knowledge

As promised in The WordPress Podcast episode 13: “An interview with Matt Mullenweg (Part 2)”, Matt today made public 99% of our internal aggregate stats at WordPress.com to the world. This is very exciting to me!

Not because it shows how we we are doing (and will show when we screw up), because of the opportunities for others to use this knowledge and to collaborate.

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