About the book
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, runs on unusual rules: its 120 employees work from anywhere they choose, rarely use email and release product improvements dozens of times a day. WordPress software powers some 50 million websites, about a fifth of the web, though the company works with far fewer resources than Google, Amazon or Facebook. Scott Berkun, a Microsoft veteran, joined WordPress.com as a manager and led a team of young programmers working on new ideas. His insider's account draws lessons on creativity, productivity, leadership and work culture. It asks what other organizations can learn from a workplace that may one day become common.
Tim Ferriss praised it as a book that changes how readers think about entrepreneurship and management, and GigaOM founder Om Malik endorsed it as Automattic's script for distributed work. Eric Ries called it an honest and funny insider's story from someone who actually worked there.
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This book has 6 recommendations
Om Malik (Founder/GigaOM)
The future of work is distributed. Automattic wrote the script. Time for rest of us to read it.
Gina Trapani (Founding Editor/LifeHacker)
With humor and heart, Scott has written a letter from the future about a new kind of workplace that wasn't possible before the internet. His insights will make you laugh, think, and ask all the right questions about your company's culture.
Eric Ries (Founder/Long-Term Stock Exchange)
Most talk of the future of work is just speculation, but Berkun has actually worked there. The Year Without Pants is a brilliant, honest, and funny insider's story of life at a great company.
Tim Ferriss (Author & Entrepreneur)
If you want to think differently about entrepreneurship, management, or life in general, read this book.
Guy Kawasaki (Author & Entrepreneur)
The underlying concept - an 'expert' putting himself on the line as an employee - is just fantastic. And then the book gets better from there! I wish I had the balls to do this.
Kevin Lamping (Founder/WebdriverIO)
Scott Berkun is a great author and this is an entertaining read about his time at Wordpress.com.
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