The Art of Crafting a Sabbatical

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• Matt is trying to be a digital Berkshire Hathaway, like a buyer of first resort for amazing things on the internet
• Automattic’s now over 1,900 people in 97 countries; fully remote and distributed since 2005, so we’ve been kind of early on a few of those trends, open source, distributed
• Wikipedia is open source applied to an encyclopedia
• state → story → strategy