Getting Out Rat Race – Ir de Compras Online

This video is an overview of one of the best books I’ve read that tackles creating a profitable business and getting out of the rat race—The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco.

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New to Newsletter — Earn With Paid Subscriptions

Whether starting a paid newsletter from scratch or taking an existing one up a notch, there's no better time than now.

How Yarnnakarn Ceramics Uses WordPress.com to Expand Their Business

Our community team recently traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to meet with longtime WordPress.com customers Karin and Nok Phisolyabut. They’re the owners of Yarnnakarn, a small arts and crafts studio that specializes in telling stories through contemporary ceramic pieces. Part of why we love this studio, in addition to their beautiful …

Concept to Creation: Custom Theme Designs Just Got Easier

Patterns, colors, fonts, and more. Our new homepage design tool guides you through making your creative vision a reality.

Happy 20th Anniversary, WordPress! We Wouldn’t Be Here Without You

On May 27, 2003, co-founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little announced that WordPress was available to the public. Their vision, as you can still read in their original post on WordPress.org, was to foster a means by which anyone could easily share and discuss their ideas with the world. What …

Hot Off the Press: New WordPress.com Themes for May 2023

Five beautiful new WordPress.com themes. Which one is your favorite?

A Tour of the All-New Stats Page

An all-new experience for measuring and analyzing how great you are.

Inside the Feature: Why Real-Time Backups Are a Big Deal

Losing your work is a thing of the past with our built-in real-time backups and one-click restores.

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Safely Jazz Up Your Website With Staging Sites on WordPress.com

WordPress.com staging sites enable you to clone your site and test any new changes in a safe environment before going live.

Why Twitter Auto-Sharing Is Coming to an End

Update: May 18, 2023. It took a few weeks, but Twitter finally shut off our API access. Though we were in limbo for a bit, we can now confirm that our services have been disconnected and Twitter is no longer part of Jetpack Social. In early April, we experienced an …

Startup founders: hire me to be your CEO

An open letter. You should make me the CEO of your company. I promise to upset your investors in ways that are really, really, funny. It’s okay to upset investors because they’re not people, just...

Justin Pot

In 2020 what we need is utopia, but even Star Trek is jaded

I caught up on Star Trek: Picard. My main thought: What is the point of western civilization if even Star Trek can’t be hopeful? Star Trek was, at some point, about a future where humanity...

Justin Pot

Facebook moderators miss key directives because the news feed is terrible

Many current social problems—not all, but many—can be traced back to our collective decision to prioritize #engagement in the systems we use to communicate with each other. Facebook’s newsfeed is the most prominent example of...

Justin Pot

There are tiny hippos living in your house (and other thoughts)

All these years later I still think about house hippos once a month or so. Confused? So was I, as a kid, seeing this PSA for the first time. The footage looked so…real. I couldn’t...

Justin Pot

Does the decline of local journalism explain declining trust in government?

Calling the government useless only works if you take for granted all the many ways public employees make modern life possible. Officials doing their jobs are the reason we have fresh water and roads to...

Justin Pot

Facebook throws pocket change at local news outlets, expects gratitude

Facebook killed local newspapers by sucking up all the revenue that used to pay for the person who’d sit in on council meetings and spell your nephews’ name incorrectly. Now they’re starting to feel bad...

Justin Pot

Trump’s Border Wall Will Cost 54 Bridges To Nowhere

Let's continue this extremely scientific analysis by comparing the two projects.

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Learn from this, Canada.

Canada's the shining beacon on a hill now, the only Western power that believes in multiculturalism.

Justin Pot

The First Canadian President!

I bought into part of the birther narrative, and didn’t even realize it. You probably did too. We all knew the birthers were crazy, because Obama wasn’t born in Kenya. But not one of us...

Justin Pot

On the shutdown: call out bullshit, then question your own.

As you know by now the US government’s been held hostage by right-wing extremists. These people thought Romney was going to win in a landslide, so reality isn’t their forte. We should absolutely call them...

Justin Pot

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