I like the “selfish gene” approach to writing open source code—that is, to aim at not only creating a useful product, but getting your coding patterns reused and imitated widely in other projects.
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How delightfully meta to notice myself reusing other people’s thought patterns in my own thinking. Reminds me of one of my favorite essays, The Ecstasy of Influence, which makes its point by being largely plagiarized.https://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/the-ecstasy-of-influence/ …
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