{"id":135,"date":"2026-10-13T10:10:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/matt-board-agent\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:10:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:10:59","slug":"matt-board-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/matt-board-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Board Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/automattic.com\/\">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\">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\/\">Ken Liu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nealstephenson.com\/\">Neal Stephenson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ted_Chiang\">Ted Chiang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/andyweirauthor.com\/\">Andy Weir<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rameznaam.com\/\">Ramez Naam<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kim_Stanley_Robinson\">Kim Stanley Robinson<\/a>\u2026) but not as close to as <a href=\"https:\/\/hughhowey.com\/\">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\/\">WordPress Foundation<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/locusmag.com\/\">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\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/1f642.png\" \/><\/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\">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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}