On sabbaticals and organisation
Today was my last day of work and Iwon’t be back until Monday 3 January. I knew this sabbatical was coming and had been planning for it for months. That’s … Continue reading On sabbaticals and organisation
Category: Professional
As a lead, how do you know when you’re doing enough?
As a lead, it’s difficult to measure your work, and also to know when you’ve passed the “enough” line for the day. I’ve spent the last few months asking everyone I met about this and have learned a few things.
Takeaways: the Four Tendencies, by Gretchen Rubin
This book wasn’t actually on my reading list. I was listening to the Happiness podcast and the speakers were talking about setting New Year’s Resolutions – the point is that different tendencies … Continue reading Takeaways: the Four Tendencies, by Gretchen Rubin
A day in the life of a Happiness Engineer, October 2017 edition
I’m a Happiness Engineer on the WooCommerce Orion team, and have been working at Automattic for 18 months now.
The art of being on time to remote meetings
I hate being late. It says “I don’t care enough about your time,” so I try very hard to be on time or even better: early. When I worked in … Continue reading The art of being on time to remote meetings
Toodledo and opening links in new tabs
In which I cover some of how I use Toodledo and a nice little script to open the note links in a new tab.
One year anniversary at Automattic
On the 15th March 2016, I started as a WooCommerce Happiness Engineer at Automattic. What a year it has been!
When good manners and equality clash
I’ve never thought very much about all of the different angles around the concept of men opening doors for women. I mentally shrugged my shoulders, thanked people when they held the door for me, held the door for others and went on with my life. Sweden is very much into gender-equality, so it hasn’t come up. After a few days of having multiple men hold the door for me as a polite gesture, I’m surprised at just how surprised and startled I am by it.
CMS Africa 2017 – WooCommerce payments in Nigeria
Here are the slides for the WooCommerce payments in Nigeria presentation, that was given at CMS Summit 2017 on Friday 3 March 2017 in Abuja, Nigeria.
A (semi) typical work day for me, February 2017 edition
As a WooCommerce Happiness Engineer at Automattic, I spend some of my time directly helping customers. I also get to travel quite a bit, to different conferences and to meet my colleagues all over the world. I’ll focus on a day at home (just outside of Stockholm, Sweden), because the other days are anything but typical.
The experience of switching to Colemak
When I joined Automattic, I found that using different keyboard layouts like Dvorak and Colemak are common and encouraged – as are most things that will help you be more efficient.The idea is that if you spend so much of your day at your computer, you might as well be efficient at input. The idea seemed neat, so why not?
Automattic: my journey from application to hire
Hi! My name is Hannah and I’m a WooCommerce Happiness Engineer at Automattic. Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce and many other products. I successfully completed my trial for … Continue reading Automattic: my journey from application to hire
Hannah Swain 