Paneling on Team and Agency Building
During WordCamp San Francisco, I was honored to share the stage with inspiring friends and fellow agency owners Alex King, Shane Pearlman, and Brad Williams, along with our moderator, WordPress...
View ArticleWhy I shouldn’t blog
I own an agency called 10up, which leverages and builds the web’s best publishing software: WordPress. If you believe my friends at Acquia, blogging is WordPress’s singular worthwhile purpose. I have...
View ArticleWordPress as an App Platform?
A slightly overweight 47-year-old walks up and says, “I plan to become the next Olympic medalist for track. What do you think?” I say, “Well, I like where you’re headed, anyways.” In fairness, that guy...
View ArticleSpeaking of Hub and Spoke
10up was designed from the ground up to be a distributed agency. At the time, I had a really good reason and a rather lame reason. The good reason: I’d spent the last 5 years in leadership positions at...
View ArticleDistributed straw men
While hardly my only rationale, Chris correctly identifies the central tenant in my case for distributed teams as “finding the best.” In essence, looking everywhere for talent is increasingly vital in...
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