Tiles

Recently I was helping out my daughter with her art class. Will summarize some quick thoughts here.

Au7omattic

Today, I turn 7 years at Automattic.

Overall, 2023 was a great year:

• Working at Automattic allowed me to travel with my family and work from different locations. We traveled to all neighboring countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Albania, Serbia), and also France, Turkey, and Spain.
• Managed to ship tons of projects; a big one was where we structured and held a Security Workshop for over 40 teams (~250 engineers).
• Got deeper into philosophy and psychology, and kept blogging/sharing my learnings. This helped me improve my role as a DevEx engineer.
• Earned my WordCamp Speaker badge at WordCamp Skopje.

Time keeps flying at Automattic, it really puzzles me to think that it’s been 7 years already. Here’s to many more years 🙂

P.S. Check out my High Five post, 5 years at Automattic.

P.P.S. Happy birthday, Matt!

Introduction to Psychology overview

Recently I wrapped Yale’s Introduction to Psychology course at Coursera. I will post my notes/overview here. The certificate can be downloaded here.

The Courage to be Disliked overview

I bought this book recently and went through it in a single weekend. It reads very easily. The book is a dialogue between a philosopher and a young person; naturally, in the beginning, the young person is very skeptical about what the philosopher has to say. They discuss philosophical and psychological concepts in five days, and each day is a separate chapter, whereas each chapter is 40 pages on average.

The authors are mainly inspired by the psychologist Alfred Adler and use many of his concepts/ideas, but they also find inspiration in Socrates, Platon, Aristotle.

Some thoughts on recent self-reflections

As I reflect on my pattern of thoughts lately, I noticed how I often “step out” and think of things at a higher level, e.g., trying to justify some justifications, etc. Where does this change come from? I’d assume it has to do with me reading a lot of philosophy lately 🙂 I’ll post some brief random thoughts here about this matter.