Tag: #a8cday
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Photo dump: Sapporo, Japan (October 2023)
Just recently, I went to Sapporo for a team meetup. As a company with distributed working/remote working Before It Was Cool™, Automattic understands the importance of meeting face-to-face. Yes, we do remote working, and yes, we also appreciate the opportunity to meet our co-workers in real life. Anyway, the trip was mostly work-related trip as…
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Madrid, Spain (July 18 – 24, 2022)
Proof that my jetlag is jetlag-ing. I typed “Spain, Madrid” on the title. Rest assured, it has been fixed. I just came back, still freshly exhausted from a team meetup in Langkawi when the leads group went, “LET’S GO FOR TEAM LEADS MEETUP!” I love traveling and meeting my friends. I really do. However, the…
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Taking the time
I’ve been wanting to write about my trip to Madrid, but I have something that has been bugging my head during the long-haul flight back home so here we are. I grow up as an Indonesian with the usual “asian outlook” in life. Work (really) hard, hustle culture, never let them see that you are…
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Langkawi, 2022
I made a 2-minutes video when my team had a team meetup in Langkawi a couple of weeks ago (“Leviosa” is the name of my team. Yes, that Leviosa.) This blog is the first one to see it ? Some of the pics and the videos didn’t sync as good as I want at the…
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Yogyakarta
I was doing my usual mindless scrolling on Twitter when I saw KLa Project’s tweet about their song “Yogyakarta”. KLa Project is one of the seniors in Indonesia music industry. Their songs and albums holding legendary status among Indonesians. One of their songs is “Yogyakarta”. Yogyakarta is a special district/area in Indonesia, and Indonesians usually…
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Coworking
Working outside the home terrifies me. As soon as I started in Automattic, I found myself attached and depended on my external monitor. I have been enjoying the wide and spacious view of everything that I’m working on — it feels like ”I have the powah”-moment. This is something that I can’t achieve when coworking,…