Smoke Signals: How to Tell If You're Burning Out in Open Source
While maintaining an open source project can be fun and fulfilling, it can also be very draining. Many maintainers struggle to get the support they need.
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When the heart’s song ceases to play
Read more → More from Out of Many →This TED talk by Shonda Rhimes underscores the importance of play:
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Play and Consequences
Read more → More from Out of Many →Imagine a child playing in a sandbox, dreaming up elaborate stories about the castles they’ve built with their sandbox toys. Now, imagine a group of eighteen adults, two teams of office co-workers, throwing around a baseball according to very precise rules. Those adults are playing too.
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Feeling good vs doing good
Read more → More from Out of Many →Back in college, I based my Division III (senior thesis) research on a set of empathy studies by Nancy Eisenberg. Eisenberg’s line of research hinges on a distinction between two different kinds of empathy: empathic concern, the ability to recognize and care about the hurt others feel, and personal distress, the experiencing of the other person’s hurt yourself. Counterintuitively, personal distress is not positively associated with helping behavior. In fact, it may even decrease the likelihood of helping, if there’s an easy escape route away from the empathy-provoking situation.