The unnerving thing about running a company is watching all of your personal flaws accidentally become codified in the culture of the organization and come to life three years later as actions of employees you've never really spoken to
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I see he's been checking my Github again.
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There's a striking parallel in science: releasing papers and data is sometimes net negative, I think. It looks like contributing to the commons, but it's really polluting the commons, sometimes in a subtle way.
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When, where and how was that observation/reasoning made? Was it in one of his (
@worrydream) talks or personal conversations? "releasing open source software being a net negative sometimes"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Indeed. No person or activity is immune to error, and therefore causing (arbitrarily large) negative consequences. Of course, that just means we've got to be ready to correct mistakes, not try to avoid them.
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Is there a concrete example of this?
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