{"id":13262,"date":"2026-10-13T09:10:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/matt-board-agent\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T09:10:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:10:59","slug":"matt-board-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/matt-board-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Board Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/automattic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Automattic<\/a> is always 5\u201315 years ahead of other companies, but things happen faster now. I predict other companies will start scrambling to add great writers to their boards, because, well, look at the headlines in AI. <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.united.com\/corporate-governance\/board-of-directors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United\u2019s board already has Walter Isaacson<\/a>. Authors are awesome, akin to founders in the startup\/tech ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public offer to all the great sci-fi\/etc writers out there who I\u2019m a huge fan of (<a href=\"https:\/\/kenliu.name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ken Liu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nealstephenson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neal Stephenson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ted_Chiang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ted Chiang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/andyweirauthor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Weir<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rameznaam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramez Naam<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kim_Stanley_Robinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kim Stanley Robinson<\/a>\u2026) but not as close to as <a href=\"https:\/\/hughhowey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hugh<\/a> (I was part of him meeting his wife, officiated one of their weddings), I offer my services as your Board Agent to negotiate compensation and contracts for you! 1% fee, donated to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpressfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress Foundation<\/a> \u0623\u0648 <a href=\"https:\/\/locusmag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locus Magazine<\/a>. I\u2019ve become a bit of an expert in board protections, dynamics, compensation, and such. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude42\" class=\"wp-smiley lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/1f642.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Aside:<\/em> If you haven\u2019t seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turn_Every_Page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Caro \/ Robert Gottlieb documentary Turn Every Page<\/a>, run, don\u2019t walk to your nearest streaming service!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automattic is always 5\u201315 years ahead of other companies, but things happen faster now. I predict other companies will start scrambling to add great writers to their boards, because, well, look at the headlines in AI. United\u2019s board already has Walter Isaacson. Authors are awesome, akin to founders in the startup\/tech ecosystem. Public offer to [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gts.sa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}