Back in the archives of People First I used to talk about ‘The People’s OS’. 🔗 Here for example. It sat together with something that I also called HumanIT. In many ways playful ideas on a tech first world that even then was apparent - much less today. (Hat tip to my friend Jeff Orgel who gave me ‘HumanIT’.) (And now you know why I started ‘People First’.)
Reading this today makes me think that this movement might just be an idea whose time has finally come … (another hat tip - this one to ‘Victor’.)
🔗 (The) Automattic Operating System | Matt Mullenweg
Too early to talk about what I was doing one day last week - BUT - reading this totally resonated for me and let me start to explain why and then - when ready - I will come back at another time and in another post to talk about what I was doing.
BTW - I am increasingly a big fan of Matt and his thinking. (It started with him taking a stand against bullies) … and yes - I know I am ‘at odds’ with a number of readers on that one - but that’s ok. Right?
Vive la différence
At Automattic, the most important product I work on is the company itself. I’ve started referring to it as the “Automattic Operating System.” Not in the technical sense like Linux, but the meta layer the company runs on. The company isn’t WordPress.com or Beeper or Pocket Casts or any one thing. I’m responsible for the culture of the people who build those things, building the things that build those things. It’s our hiring, our HR processes, our expenses, the onboarding docs; it’s all of the details that make up the employee experience — all the stuff that shapes every employee’s day-to-day experience.
💬 Matt Mullenweg
There are too many buzz word applications with throw away thinking that circulate the interwebs for my taste - and I do what I can (a single voice in a cacaphony of band waggon jumpers) to stop that. BUT the Automattic Operating System is not one of those - it really is a concept that resonates.
A full ‘4π Steradian’ piece of thinking.
(Seperate thought - 🔗 this is the Inc piece that Matt is referring to in his article.)