63 miles with almost 8,000 feet of climbing. What a great day. I was very impressed with the route, event organization, and Boise area riding. I’d for sure do this again. Thanks to Christie for the invite and company.
https://www.boisegravelgala.com
kelly.blog
life, work, etc.
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Adventure riding weekend in Roslyn, WA. Rock slab, river beers, mining town, steep sandy climbs, hike-a-bike, singletrack, and a bunch of cool people.
look at this watch tan line 
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For the fifth year in a row, I raced the Sturdy Dirty – an all-women enduro mountain bike race. I look forward to it every year since moving to Seattle. I decided to challenge myself this year and upgrade to Expert category, which has the most distance, climbing, and hardest trails. I survived, had a ton of fun, and didn’t come in last!
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I took my camera out twice this trip. Too busy living.
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Happy 20 years to Automattic! To celebrate, here are 20 reasons why I love working here:
- Mission.
- People. I love the people I work with everyday. The design team is especially awesome 🙂
- Work. The work itself is challenging, impactful, and fun.
- Life. This job allows me to live a wonderful life and I don’t take that for granted, even after nearly 12 years here.
- Future. I’m excited about what is ahead and the positive effects we can continue to have on the internet and people’s livlihood.
- Improvement. Automattic values continuous improvement and learning from successes and failures. This is also how I live my life.
- Autonomy. I have the autonomy to work how, where, and when it best suits me in order to be most effective.
- Output. Although we’re a much larger company now, we still are very much execution-focused. We value impact, not hours logged, meetings attended, or other performative metrics.
- Design. Beautiful and thoughtful design is valued and prioritized across everything we build.
- Growth. I’ve grown personally and professionally here in ways I never expected.
- Mentorship. Amazing opportunities to both learn from others and help guide newer team members.
- Freedom. The freedom to experiment, take risks, and pursue ideas that matter.
- Flexibility. Work-life balance isn’t just a buzzword here—it’s actually practiced.
- Travel. Meetups and conferences that bring our distributed team together in amazing places.
- Perspective. World wide diversity of colleagues brings incredible insights and viewpoints.
- Change. The company evolves and adapts, keeping things fresh and exciting.
- Impact. Our work affects millions of people and websites across the globe.
- WordPress. Being part of something that powers over 40% of the web is pretty amazing.
- Open Source. Contributing to and believing in the power of open source software.
- Intentionality. Every decision feels thoughtful and prioritizes the right thing over the thing right now.
- Matt. I’ve only worked at founder-led companies and Matt’s vision continues to inspire me. I hope to work here for decades to come.
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Check out the highlights from the Automattic Design team this past year. đź–¤
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Stumbled onto slate.auto and really love the simple idea of this truck/car. One model, no screens, a bunch of configurations. $20k.
These are my favorites so far:
Reminds me a bit of WordPress with how it starts with a blank slate, nothing you don’t need, and you can customize it to suit your needs. Curious to see how it does.
