Embracing Idleness (Or, Notes from Sabbatical, Week 7)
I have officially reached the point in my three-month sabbatical when I’ve googled “Automattic sabbatical” to find blog posts written by my colleagues about their own time off from work. Writing about...
View ArticleTwitter, Blogging, Sparks, Connections
The other day I tweaked the homepage of this site. The complex years-long relationship I have with this site means that I feel weird, anxious even, to call it what it is—a blog—but it is a blog and has...
View ArticleFriendships, Family, Freedom (Or, Notes from Sabbatical, Weeks 8-11)
Why do kids in California return to school so early? It’s the end of summer! It’s back to school! Like, what? It’s only the middle of August. Last week in L.A., we hung out with friends visiting from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Creating Artwork for Longreads Stories
Our team has been producing artwork in house for our Longreads stories for some time now. It’s forced me to improve my PicMonkey and Canva skills. (I don’t know when I last used Photoshop—do people...
View Article
