Similar to my previous post, here I will capture some of my recent brain activities 🙂

What are you thinking about right now? Pause and think before you continue reading. Now ask yourself the following questions: Why was I thinking about that? How did I feel? How did I feel when I thought about the previous questions? What other interesting questions can I ask myself? Why them?

The purpose of these questions is to trigger thinking about thinking. Meta-thinking is thinking about thinking, or beyond thinking. Likewise with meta-thoughts.

There are an infinite number of questions that can be asked. A small part of them will be shown here, but the point is not to write down all the questions, but to get into the habit of asking questions, mostly to yourself. Read a book -> new perspective -> more questions.

Continue reading “Some thoughts on recent self-reflections (part 2)” →

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!