{"id":1324,"date":"2016-06-09T12:15:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T16:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.neo.wordcamp.org\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2016-06-09T08:46:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:46:54","slug":"speaker-interview-adam-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker-interview-adam-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Interview: Adam Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at WordCamp Northeast Ohio, we are pretty big fans of the Lifehacker series “How I Work”<\/a>. We asked our speakers to do a WordPress take on that idea, and thus was born “How I WordPress”- a series where some of the best minds in WordPress share a bit about their process with our readers\/attendees.<\/p>\n

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Name<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adam Silver<\/span><\/p>\n

Location<\/strong><\/p>\n

Redondo Beach, CA<\/span><\/p>\n

Current Gig<\/strong><\/p>\n

Husband. Dad. WordPress Educator, Podcaster & Developer, Social Media Manager, and all around nice guy. <\/span><\/p>\n

Career Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Short version: Degree in Theatre Performance and love technology. Mixing the two best I can. <\/span><\/p>\n

One word that best describes how you work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frenetically<\/span><\/p>\n

Current Mobile Device\/Why<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iphone 6 – Apple since 1982. Ain’t changing now! <\/span><\/p>\n

Current Computer\/Why <\/strong><\/p>\n

2012 15″ MacBook Pro Retina. Work anywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

What apps\/software\/tools can’t you live without?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obvious answer: WordPress. As a tester and troubleshooter, I love, love love DesktopServer. Much smarter and safer to test things locally. Pretty fond of OmniFocus, Dropbox and Freshbooks as well. All that said, I’m trying to do a technology sabbath one of these weekends.. unplug for a long weekend, as I know it’s important. <\/span><\/p>\n

What’s your workspace setup like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Custom hacked standing desk with Ikea Expedit series. <\/span><\/p>\n

What’s your best time\/effort-saving life hack?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Checklists and laying out my running clothes the night before. <\/span><\/p>\n

What’s your favorite to-do list method?<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Allen’s GTD. I use OmniFocus for task management. <\/span><\/p>\n

After your phone and computer, what gadget can’t you live without? Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blendtec. <\/span><\/p>\n

What everyday thing are you better at than everyone else?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Explaining high level technology\/concepts to non techies\/new people to the subject. Also finding the lighter side of any given moment, when appropriate.<\/span><\/p>\n

What do you listen to while working?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Depends on task. Focused tasks I use Focus@Will. Running: Podcasts + Music playlist for the last few laps\/mile<\/span><\/p>\n

What do you do to stay inspired?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hug my children. <\/span><\/p>\n

What are you currently reading?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Essentialism by Greg McKeown<\/span><\/p>\n

What sort of work are you up to now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Handful of client and personal projects plus planning my exit from the “Day Job” <\/span><\/p>\n

What’s your sleep routine like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In bed fairly regularly by 10pm. Up at 4:45am. <\/span><\/p>\n

What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Treat people the way you want to be treated. <\/span><\/p>\n

Fill in the blank: I’d love to see ????? answer these same questions<\/strong><\/p>\n

My wife or kids! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here at WordCamp Northeast Ohio, we are pretty big fans of the Lifehacker series “How I Work”. We asked our speakers to do a WordPress take on that idea, and thus was born “How I WordPress”- a series where some of the best minds in WordPress share a bit about their process with our readers\/attendees. … Continue reading “Speaker Interview: Adam Silver”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-interviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NH2X-lm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}