Paul Welty, PhD WORK, BEING, AND STAYING HUMAN

Polymathic

Essays, notes, and experiments — mostly about work, AI, and how to be a better human in the middle of all of it.

My first contribution to Bootstrap was a tiny line of CSS. It was a no-brainer to merge, but the feeling of seeing that bit of code in the project’s codebase was unreal and addictive. You may think that open source is not for you. After all, it has always been a developer-dominant ecosystem….

Read full article at the publisher’s site: https://alistapart.com/article/make-something-great-become-an-open-source-contributor

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Imagine that eight people walk into a meeting to discuss an important strategic decision for their company. They’re all well-versed in the challenge they face. But two members of the group hold some key piece of information or a perspective that not everybody has considered….

Read full article at the publisher’s site: https://work.qz.com/1260571/at-work-a-respectful-culture-is-better-than-a-nice-one/

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First impressions matter. The first glance has a lot if impact on further expectations. Drupal core doesn’t do well there. As webchick points out, after installation the opening line is “you have no content”. Yeah, thanks….

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