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The basic problem with working in an office is you're just not in control of your work environment. Основная проблема работы в офисе в том, что вы не контролируете рабочую среду. [The Way We Work] [Как мы работаем] Howdy, my name is Matt, and I'm the CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack and WooCommerce. We're coming up on over 800 employees, and they live everywhere, from California to Alabama, Mississippi, to where I live in Texas. They're also in 67 countries. Canada, Mexico, India, New Zealand...

When my 91-year-old mother, Elia, moved in with me, I thought I was doing her a service. In fact, it was the other way around. You see, mom was having issues with memory loss and accepting her age. She looked defeated. I tried to make her as comfortable as possible, but when I was at my easel, painting, I would peek over and see her just "there." She'd be staring at nothing in particular. I'd watch her slowly climb the stairs, and she wasn't the mom I grew up with. I saw, instead, a frail, tiny, old woman...

So sometimes I get angry, and it took me many years to be able to say just those words. In my work, sometimes my body thrums, I'm so enraged. But no matter how justified my anger has been, throughout my life, I've always been led to understand that my anger is an exaggeration, a misrepresentation, that it will make me rude and unlikable. Mainly as a girl, I learned, as a girl, that anger is an emotion better left entirely unvoiced. Иногда я злюсь, и чтобы сказать эти самые слова мне потребовалось много лет...

Architecture is a profession with many rules, some written, some not, some relevant and others not. As architects, we're constantly gravitating between following these rules by the book or making a space for imagination -- for experimentation. This is a difficult balance. Especially through architecture, you're trying to challenge preconceptions and push boundaries and innovate, even if just using what we have around and we overlook all the time. And this is what I've been doing along with my team,...

In 1969, I was standing behind a Sylvania black-and-white television set. Hearing about these things happening on the set in the front, I was the guy, you know, moving the rabbit ears for my dad, and my sister and my mom. "Move over here, turn over here, move this way, we can't see the screen." And what they were watching was: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil [Armstrong] and Buzz Aldrin were walking on the Moon. And I was five years old in Lynchburg, Virginia, a skinny black kid in a kind of somewhat racist town...

Applying for jobs online is one of the worst digital experiences of our time. And applying for jobs in person really isn't much better. Трудоустройство онлайн — одно из неприятных проявлений технологий в наше время. Но подавать заявления на работу лично ничем не лучше. [The Way We Work] [Как мы работаем] Hiring as we know it is broken on many fronts. It's a terrible experience for people. About 75 percent of people who applied to jobs using various methods in the past year said they never heard anything back from the employer...

At this very moment, with every breath we take, major delta cities across the globe are sinking, including New York, London, Tokyo, Shanghai, New Orleans, and as well as my city, Bangkok. Here is the usual version of climate change. This is mine. Nothing much, just a crocodile on the street. Прямо сейчас каждую секунду по всему миру под воду уходят города, расположенные в дельтах крупных рек, включая Нью-Йорк, Лондон, Токио, Шанхай, Новый Орлеан, так же, как и мой город, Бангкок. Это привычная версия изменения климата...