The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg

Some aspects of the bubble lifestyle irritate me, but this was an interesting read.<p><i>In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors -- a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC.</i><p>What does this actually mean? A Mac with a virtualized Windows instance on one of the monitors?<p><i>I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office -- just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight. Sometimes, I will go out at night, come home from the bar at 2 or 3 a.m., and then go to work.</i><p>This has to take a toll, right?

Nice tool. Nice reason.<p>"I decided to do it because I was worried about my mom. She hadn't started a blog yet, but I had this crazy fear that when she did, she'd be bombarded by spam for Viagra and think that had something to do with what I did all day."<p>Matt's reason for creating Akismet.<p>And I like the way he ends up.<p>"My mom started a blog a couple of weeks ago. Six years into this, and we finally made it easy enough for my mom to use."<p>Increase usability. A goal any product should try to gain.

I'd recognize those Shindo Latour loudspeakers anywhere. That's a serious audiophile system costing more than a typical U.S. automobile.

This resonates strongly with me:<p>"People write a lot of comments on my blog, and I actually read and manually approve every comment before it gets posted. I think the broken-windows theory -- that a broken window or graffiti in a neighborhood begets more of the same -- applies online. One bad comment engenders 10 more. I'll happily approve a comment from someone who completely disagrees with everything I believe in, but if I get a positive comment with a curse word in it, I'll edit it out. My blog is like my living room. If someone was acting out in my house, I'd ask that person to leave."

I was wowed by "we track 500 to 600 statistics".

Yeah. It is time to save on all those offices, leased lines, and owning a hardware. Laptop, 3G, code.google.com and aws.amazon.com or some self-managed dedicated server. That is already established way to work in US. Now it is time to expand to so-called third world.