Dave Martin

A buddy of mine from Las Vegas was dropping his daughter off at the missionary training center in Mexico City this past weekend, so I arranged to swing down and spend a few days wandering around, seeing some sights, and eating some good food.

They’re building a neighborhood behind our house.

I’ve been looking for ideas to blog about.

This afternoon, I went and spent an hour and a half walking through the NC Museum of Art.

There’s a new Documentary available on Disney+ and YouTube today called Handcrafted that chronicles the Creation of Disneyland with original footage: Trailer: (2.5 min) Full documentary: (118 min) This is a must watch if you’re a designer, builder, or dre…

This holiday break I ran an experiment.

My buddy Tom from Vegas and I spent a week traveling around Japan.

What comes to mind when you hear this word?

In small teams, decisions have a home.

I shared a post internally a while back with a few thoughts, one of which was “Automattic is not a family, it’s more like a sports team”.

I like pineapple on pizza.

The Problem WordPress has become too noisy to be usable for the average human.

Here’s a running list of videos that have made me feel something over the years: That’s my boy!

This past week, I joined the Fediverse team in Porto for their meetup.

My daughter Kiora loves to read, so I decided to write a book to teach her about money and entrepreneurship.

Mary Shelley tells of a young university student named Victor, brilliant and restless, obsessed with bringing his creation to life.

I like to build side projects.

This past week my son and I joined up with a few other fathers and sons to hike a portion of the Appalachian Trail over the course of 4 days.

My good buddy Greg Winters turned me on to Stephen Wilson Jr.

I was invited to State of the Word in Japan in December.

Automattic is fully remote, but 1-2 times a year, we gather in person for a week.

On September 17, Matt Mullenweg published WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking, sharing his belief that an open source ecosystem can only thrive when those who benefit from it also give back.

We spent two weeks in Southern Utah, Arizona, and Vegas at the beginning of the month.

This week my son and I joined up with a number of other youth and dads for a 5 day canoeing trip.

Books have always been a big part of my life.

I was catching up with my friend Jeff Ong.

I’m excited to share my latest side project: https://betterdesignfeedback.com/ I’ve been working on this free 43 lesson course on the side for the past couple of months.

This is what I aspire to, but it might not actually exist.

I’ve not used a Windows machine regularly for probably 10+ years.

Did you know that you can access the Battery Usage feature on your iPhone (Settings -> Battery -> Last 10 Days -> Show Activity) to see precisely how many minutes (or hours) you’ve spent on each app over the past 10 days?

I had the opportunity to attend a designer meetup in Lake Como Italy last week.

During my high school years, a few of my closest friends and I were employed at Farm Basket Chicken in Las Vegas, a place where we created countless memories.

At Automattic, we’ve always worked fully distributed.

Let’s say you worked on a side project 2 hours every weekday, and took the weekends off.

I built a custom error handling system, which I find extremely handy, so I’m sharing all of the code below.

In business, it’s easy to get caught up in the complexities of running a company.

Last December marked the first holiday season without my beloved mother, Kathleen.

Yesterday, I hopped on a plane to NYC in the morning with the intent trying a bunch of new food and seeing a show.

I’m about two-thirds through my three month sabbatical from Automattic.

My good buddy Matt Mazur and I flew out to Portland for a week, earlier this month to drive down the Oregon coast into Northern California.

Today officially marks my second 5-year stint working at Automattic.

If you were to distill what it means for you to be a lead in a single sentence, what would that sentence be?

What makes us human?

Today marks 15 full months that I’ve been working on a side project called Crafd.

My darling daughters, I wanted to write down some advice for each of you – my thoughtful 15-year-old, my spirited 8-year-old, and my delightful 4-year-old.

Many tech CEOs are calling quits on remote work, requiring employees back in the office.

It’s that extra moment of consideration.

What is a playbook?

Wanderlust I’ve always wanted to go on a long thru-hike like the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) or the Appalachian Trail (AT).

We often hear that a glowing recommendation from someone inside your dream company is the golden ticket to landing a job.