work and temperament

[brainwane]

I'm very grateful right now that I've found/made work that suits me, understanding and explaining and improving complicated systems, mostly in the open. Right now I'm in the middle of a deep understanding-so-I-can-demonstrate task, so I can explain why a particular stalled project matters & is more urgent than some stakeholders realize, and it's rewarding and I'm so happy that I'll be putting the results on a public wiki page so other people can learn from it, not just about this project, but about how a persuasive thing like that can look.

I said in a chat the other day:

and temperamentally, well, you've met me, I seem to, by default, believe that I'm doing the world a disservice if I hoard my wisdom without sharing it. I'm kinda joking but kinda not?
that plus some mild social obliviousness has really served me well in open source, and on that I am not even joking

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Your dedication to sharing wisdom gives me hope.

[kass]

<3

[eirias]

I’ve only met you the once, and admittedly have no idea if it’s a representative sample, but what stood out to me was your repeated attempts to incite stuff. Like, identifying what someone might care about or knows about and urging them to do the thing, whatever the thing is. This seems like it could be a special case of sharing your wisdom, but it’s a really particular (and particularly valuable) sort of wisdom, if so.

thank you

[brainwane]

I just revisited this and -- thank you. I really appreciate you noticing and saying this about me.

[wohali]

I envy your energy. Things are...challenging with my OSS work right now, and staying both positive *and* energised enough to carry through is a huge problem for me.