The Year Without Pants, Scott Berkun
The Year Without Pants, Scott Berkun
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The Year Without Pants
WordPress.com and the Future of Work

Author: Scott Berkun

Narrator: Chris Kayser

Unabridged: 8 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 10/08/2020

Synopsis

Nearly 50 million websites, or 20% of the entire web, use WordPress to power their web presence. The force behind WordPress is a company called Automattic, Inc. With just 104 employees, they have a fraction of the resources of similarly influential companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon. Yet Automattic has quietly positioned itself as a powerhouse for the future of the web. How is this possible? What's different about how they work and what can other companies learn from their methods? Scott Berkun decided to find out. From 2010 to 2012 he worked as a manager at WordPress.com, leading a team of programmers to make WordPress better. In THE YEAR WITHOUT PANTS, Berkun shares the lessons he learned, including insights on: How their decentralized workplace (104 employees in 70 different cities) is incredibly creative and productive How they successfully transcended the horrors of email, and use blogs, chat and Skype instead  What managers everywhere can learn and emulate from their culture of freedom and experimentation THE YEAR WITHOUT PANTS delves deep into what made WordPress's phenomenal success possible. And Berkun shares what every organization can learn from his story of discovery in applying the world changing ideas for the future of work at the heart of Automattics success.

About Scott Berkun

Scott Berkun (@berkun) is the bestselling author of seven books, including Making Things Happen, The Myths of Innovation, Confessions of a Public Speaker, and The Year Without Pants. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Wired, Fast Company, the Economist, Forbes, and other media. He has taught creative thinking at the University of Washington and has been a regular commentator on CNBC, MSNBC and National Public Radio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lloyd

Wow, is it weird to read a book about your company. I was employee 10, worked at Automattic for 5 years, and left Automattic about six months before Berkun left. I wish I had this book to read while I was at Automattic! It would have shaped my thinking! Of course, this is going to be my favorite Berku......more

Goodreads review by aimee

If sometimes you wonder whether everything possible hasn't already been written about startups, business, software startups, software businesses and so on (ad nauseum), you wouldn't be alone. Certainly, the industry which examines this seems pretty healthily active. Books, lectures, blawgs, twits, yo......more

Goodreads review by Mark

I'm pretty stingy with five star reviews. To get five stars a book needs to be something that I think I will come back to. It has to have the potential to become an old friend. The Year Without Pants fits that perfectly. In the book Scott Berkun trades his speaking, writing and consulting life for s......more

Goodreads review by Mirek

Exciting it was not, but informative. I got what I wanted, ie. a description of the work model in the company behind wordpress.com. Is it the "Future of Work" as described in the subtitle? Probably not. Will have to check what has changed at automatic over the past decade. Any pointers where to look......more

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