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This past week, several people related to the WordPress project have been discussing their motivations for working with free and open source software. There have people explaining the new business leads they get from being prominently listed as open source developers. There have been others lamenting the fact that free development is, by nature, free. But no one has really captured my personal reasons for working with open source systems.
I do it because it feels right. [Read more...]
I was once called a “creative genius.” Not by myself. Not by my parents. It was a random comment from a complete stranger on the other side of the globe. He’d read my work online, perused my portfolio, and looked through other tidbits of miscellany that I’d scattered about the Internet. I tried my best to play the compliment down at the time, but really, it made me feel good.
Lately, though, I feel like I’ve done nothing worthy of even a passing glance. My “creative genius” has waned somewhat of late, and I place the blame on the circumstances of my career and my inability to recognize the ebbs and flows of my real-world education. [Read more...]
Businesses are motivated by profit. You push your employees to work hard in order to maximize your owners’(either your or your shareholders’) profit-making ability. This leads to incentives for sales teams, team-building promotional activities, quarterly performance reviews, and a highly competitive workspace. [Read more...]
