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@karenalma
Create a Personal Operations System with Claude Code My current work involves a lot of context switching and incorparates a bunch of incoming information everyday: two Slack workspaces, email, calendar, internal P2s (blogs), and meetings....
Heron in Flight
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The Johari Window and Thoughts on Self-Knowledge
I first heard about the Johari window on Smarter Every Day, Destin Sandlin’s YouTube channel. What intrigues me about it is how it forces you to remember that even though we live inside our own skin and our own brain every day, we don’t actually know everything about ourselves. Sometimes other people can see things more clearly than we can. A visual representation of the Johari Window diagram…
Highlights from WordCamp Asia 2026
A New Role
After 13 years working on hiring workflows and Talent Acquisition at Automattic, I’ve made a career switch. Not to a new company, but a new chapter inside the same one. I spent the last several years building Automattic’s global Talent function with a lot of iteration, a lot of learning, and a team I genuinely loved working with. It wasn’t always easy and it wasn’t always glamorous, and we had…
Outing to the Museum of Albuquerque
Fourteen Years of Notes
Happy Birthday WordPress.com
Reflections on Solitude
Using AI Responsibly in Job Applications
It’s been fascinating (and a bit scary) to watch how large language models have transformed the Talent landscape and I’ve been thinking a lot about how standout candidates should use AI responsibly in their candidate journey. AI tools can be extremely valuable when used thoughtfully and intentionally. And it’s not going to go away. People are using tools like Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT for…
Navigating Chaos and Change
If you’re like most organizations, you may have spent a lot of time in the past year processing change: a reorganization, adapting to new priorities, or facing unexpected challenges. In my experience, the difference between thriving and struggling during change comes down to being able to distinguish between what actually happened and our interpretations of those events. Understanding the two…
The Art of Self-Learning
As my two youngest children get ready for college in the fall and we look at their lists of required textbooks, I’ve been reflecting on self-guided learning, both in my family and at Automattic. There are quite a lot of similarities between how my husband and I encouraged our kids to learn independently during their homeschooling journey and the culture of learning at Automattic. While I’m sure…
The Coffee Shop Name Saga Continues
I’ve always had a challenge getting people to say my name correctly. This is especially entertaining at coffee shops, as I was reminded this past week when a barista really did try, but still ended up way off. The correct pronunciation of my name, Karen (where the first syllable is pronounced like the vehicle and there’s a clear “eh” sound in the second syllable), is typically considered to have…
This is a New One
I have no idea how they got Carien from Kaaaah-ren. Must have been the end of a long day for an overworked barista.
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Claude, my Assistant: Working Smarter with AI
At Automattic, we use AI tools regularly – it comes naturally when you’re a software company. As someone who focuses more on people and operations than code, I’ve found interesting ways to use AI to do more. I’ve been using Claude as an assistant – someone who can take a messy pile of information and transform it into something clear and actionable. Disorganized to organized Here’s an example…
Finding Gratitude
It’s easy to get caught up in where we want to be, as opposed to where we are. For example, when I paint – I get hyper-focused on the end result and forget to notice the process itself. Over the past few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude and how it shows up in unexpected places. My mom taught me many things. One unexpected lesson that popped up throughout our relationship was how…
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I'm Staying
The last few days at Automattic have been… something else. The Alignment Offer has come and gone, and while we’ve had to say goodbye to some wonderful Automatticians, I am more committed than ever to our mission and the work we do. Over the past few days, I couldn’t help but reflect on my journey with WordPress and Automattic, and the feeling that comes up again and again is a sense of deep…