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AUTOMATTIC REMOTE NOMADIC KAT CHRISTOFER

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Agenda INTRO AUTOMATTIC HOW WE WORK TOOLS NOMADIC LIFE

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AUTOMATTIC (a8c) Name and origin About Company creed

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AUTOMATTIC CREED PATRICK RAULAND

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Remote work Weekly Monthly - Town Hall Quarterly - OKRs, hack week Meetups - Team and Annual Team meetings Scheduling Hiring

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Nomadic Life What nomadic means How/why it happened How I decide where to go How I travel Myths Will I stop?

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LANZAROTE JULY 2015

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MOROCCO MARCH 2016

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SOUTH AFRICA MAY 2016

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NEPAL MAY 2017

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GRAND MEETUP - CANADA OCTOBER 2017

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FRANCE NEW YEAR’S EVE 2018

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SINGAPORE FEBRUARY 2019

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INDONESIA FEBRUARY 2019

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MALAYSIA FEBRUARY 2019

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Notes Automattic
 https://automattic.com/about/
 https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
 https://distributed.blog/2019/07/02/on-building-automattic/
 Company creed https://automattic.com/creed/
 Why your company should have a creed https://ma.tt/2011/09/automattic-creed/
 
 How We Roll
 Weekly - Team check-in on P2
 Monthly - Town Hall
 Quarterly - OKRs - company and team; Hack Week - project that benefits our customers
 Team meetup - Every 6-9 months
 Company meetup - Annual 
 
 Team meetings
 Weekly or biweekly
 Agenda
 Zoom/hangout
 Time limit
 Format - Personal > agenda
 
 Scheduling
 Days and hours
 Happiness Engineers (HEs) are required to work a weekend and get a flex day in return; pick a min of chat shifts
 Trust and accountability
 Productivity
 Vacation and AFK policy
 Sabbatical
 
 Productivity talks
 https://wordpress.tv/2018/11/23/kat-christofer-y-raul-anton-salmorejo-for-success-how-to-be-super-productive-as-a-remote-worker/
 https://wordpress.tv/2019/04/07/kat-christofer-how-to-maximize-productivity-while-working-remotely/

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Notes Tools
 Internal blogs - P2 https://p2theme.com
 Slack
 Google Suite - Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Calendar, Hangouts
 1Password, LastPass, RememBear or another password manager
 Zoom
 Trello
 Monday
 Canva and InVision for design
 GitHub
 Droplr
 CloudUp
 Zendesk (customized) - tickets
 HappyChat (in house) - live chat
 Tracks (in house) and Google Analytics - data
 WordPress
 
 Nomadic
 Travel journal https://katchristofer.com
 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/katchristofer/
 Mustang Road Trips http://mustang.katchristofer.com How Working Remotely Helped Me See the World - WordCamp Varna https://wordpress.tv/2017/09/30/kat-christopher- how-wordpress-and-working-remotely-helped-me-see-the-world/