What inspired or motivated you to give this talk at WordCamp?
WordPress is extremely effective at managing and presenting content in a certain ways, and it can be challenging to break out of those molds — if you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. I’d love to see us as a community help WP evolve to solve different kinds of problems more effectively, and use the tools that WP already provides to solve familiar problems more uniquely.
How do you “create intention” in your job, career, or life?
We’re really big on intention at Modern Tribe. Our leadership team retreats 4 times a year where we kick off with by asking the question “Is the business still taking you where you want to go?” We also don’t position work/life as oppositional concepts — work is just one of many pieces that make up a life, ideally with all of them intentionally lived.
If you were a WordPress Plugin, what Plugin would you be and why?
The Image Widget — everyone’s worth 10,000 words.
If you were not doing your current job, what profession would you be in and why?
I’d run a burrito & beer shop. Though the plan isn’t to do that instead of my current job, just expand our reach to include tubular food product.
What professional and/or research resource(s) can’t you live without?
I tend to be a book reader more than web surfer when it comes to learning (I might be one of the few who is sad about the death of the modern book store. Browsing design books online sucks).