Hi, I’m Job
I’m a Belgian, living in Cape Town. As CXO for Automattic (WooCommerce, WordPress.com, Tumblr), I help people be successful online.
On my personal website, I mostly write about leadership and tech. I also share some of my photography.
Photography
I began shooting on a Canon 550D in 2010. Over the years I’ve tried a bit of everything, but with my Canon RP and a 28mm lens, I keep gravitating toward travel and street — the stories that pull me in. These are my latest photo journals.
Blog
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8–12 minutesSchool communication is too much, so my AI does it
Seven school WhatsApp groups, 700 parents, tons of information of which the vast majority is not that relevant for me. How I set up an assistant to read them and post only what concerns our daughter — no coding, about half an hour.
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2–4 minutes
A jazzy organisation
At Automattic, our organisation is run much more like a jazz band than a classical orchestra. In this post, I explain why that understanding has been so helpful for…
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3–5 minutes
A new role, ad interim
For the next eight months, I will serve as chief customer experience officer at Automattic, focusing on improving support through proactive communication and a tighter feedback loop. I’m committed…
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1–2 minutes
42 before 42
When I started running in 2020, I started with a 2k. It was rough. Two years later, I did my first half marathon, and already back then I was…
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1–2 minutes
Tackling commerce emails
Jon and I are enhancing the understanding of transactional emails in WooCommerce. Two of our logged-related pull requests have been merged for WooCommerce 10.9, enabling merchants to see logs…