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Opinion
Mullenweg: It is easier to slack off in an office than in distributed work
“I think it's easier to slack off in an office than it is in a distributed environment.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 5, 2021 ▶ 28:04 #100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key
Opinion
Mullenweg: Proprietary software is an evolutionary dead end
“And I believe all proprietary software to be an evolutionary dead end.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 5, 2021 ▶ 1:21:50 #100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key
Opinion
Mullenweg: Black-Box Algorithms Are Stripping Away Human Agency
“And more and more, as more and more of our lives are influenced, you know, who we date, when we meditate, what we pay attention to, what news we read are essentially these black box algorithms. We are losing our agency and sovereignty over ourselves.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 5, 2021 ▶ 6:20 #100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key
Opinion
Mullenweg argues open-core business models incentivize hiding best features behind paywalls
“I personally don't like that because it seems to take what makes open source successful and essentially, you know, create the incentives against it, right? Because if you play that out 1020 years from now, your very best features are going to go into the paid …”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 5, 2021 ▶ 8:16 #100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key
Opinion
Automattic's internal blog archive is its most valuable asset, exceeding cash reserves
“More than the money in our bank, more than our software, anything is this, ah, sort of now, kind of like a 15 year record of every decision, every design process, everything is in these internal blogs.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 5, 2021 ▶ 36:05 #100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key
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