Interviewing for an Open Leader
originally published on blog.weareopen.coop Recently some colleagues asked me to provide a few questions that would help an interview panel suss out whether or not… Read More »Interviewing for an Open Leader
Perception
Have you seen these personalities in open source?
Originally published on Opensource.com When I worked with the Mozilla Foundation, long before the organization boasted more than a hundred and fifty staff members, we… Read More »Have you seen these personalities in open source?
We are all patients and carers
cross-posted on medium On March 9, the year of our Lord 2018, Mr. Mathers and I traveled to the Royal Infirmary at the Edinburgh University… Read More »We are all patients and carers
Supporting the collective: Co-ops, CoTech and Anti-capitalism
For a while now, since realizing that co-op values and principles and open source ones overlap quite extensively, I’ve been noticing something interesting capitalism (or… Read More »Supporting the collective: Co-ops, CoTech and Anti-capitalism
A Collection of Voices: We Are Open Co-op Day: September 2017 Edition
On the first day of September in the Year of Our Lord 2017, the We Are Open Co-op joined together in a celebration of piety… Read More »A Collection of Voices: We Are Open Co-op Day: September 2017 Edition
How to handle criticism of your open project
originally posted on Opensource.com Remaining empathetic when people criticize your project can be difficult. Here’s how my team did it recently. Over the course of… Read More »How to handle criticism of your open project
What to do when your open team has impostor syndrome
Originally posted on Opensource.com Want to overcome your team’s feelings of inadequacy? Start by making different language choices. Recently I facilitated a creative work week… Read More »What to do when your open team has impostor syndrome
Thinking about robots
In the biweekly call I’ve been running since I came to Greenpeace, we have some deep philosophical discussions. We start with something meta, and then… Read More »Thinking about robots
What storytellers can teach open leaders
Learning from great storytellers makes us better open leaders—as long as we understand what these roles have in common. People are natural storytellers. From the… Read More »What storytellers can teach open leaders
We write for ourselves.
Over the last few weeks, many of us Internet people – progressives, left leaners – have been thinking deeply about how we’ve managed to screw… Read More »We write for ourselves.