A couple months ago, I went on a work trip and got to go back to my favorite city. While most of our time was spent working at our AirBnB, we got to enjoy our evenings at some of my favorite places and restaurants. I even got to try a few new places that I never made it to while I lived there!
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Sharing Is Hard / We’re All Imposters!
It’s probably pretty safe to say that most of us participate actively on a variety of social media applications (probably more often than we should). Additionally, many of us went through high school and likely even some college – so we’ve all had to write our fair share of papers. Why is it so difficult to blog, even casually, then? I know I’m not alone on this.
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The Heidelberg Project
The Heidelberg Project is an outdoor art project in Detroit, Michigan, in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on the city’s east side. It was created in 1986 by the artist Tyree Guyton after he returned to Heidelberg (the street where he grew up) after serving in the Army and found it in shambles. Guyton was assisted by his wife, Karen, and grandfather Sam Mackey.
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Dot Blog
To ring in the new year (and thanks to some wonderful colleagues of mine), I just activated dan.robert.blog, replacing my previous site address. Initially, I had set this domain up as a separate photo blog but I changed my mind. I think it will be much more sensible to combine and maintain one site, instead of two.
I’m really proud of the work the .blog folks have done on the new TLD and I’m excited to see where it goes from here.
Head on over to: get.blog if you would like your very own .blog domain!
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Ziplining in Whistler
When I was in Whistler a couple months ago for my company’s annual meetup, I had the chance to go ziplining for the first time as one of the activities. It was a lot of fun, I’d highly recommend it.
I came across this short video I took on one of the lines that day.
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Whistler, BC – Automattic GM 2016
This past September, Automattic held it’s annual Grand Meetup – where the entire company (located all around the world) gets together in one location to talk about past and future goals, work on some fun projects, and hang out with each other.
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New York, NY
A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to travel to NYC for a short work trip. It was my first time visiting the city so I spent a bit of time one morning exploring as much as I could. All of my time there was spent in Manhattan (aside from a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge one evening) but I absolutely loved it … much more than I ever imagined I would!
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San Francisco, CA – Team 51 Meetup
Last month, Team 51 (the team I am a part of at Automattic) had it’s first-ever official team meetup. We chose San Francisco because half of the team lives there so it made things a little easier to plan. Plus, it’s an awesome city anyway! We even took a little day-trip up to Napa Valley for a little bit of wine tasting! That was especially exciting because it was my first time to Napa.
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Lisbon, Portugal – Theme Wranglers Meetup
Just before Thanksgiving, I took a trip over to Portugal with my team at Automattic. While most of our time there was spent hacking away at a cool, new project and chatting a lot about themes, we did manage to squeeze in a bit of time for some exploring.