Chris pointed me at this cartoon as a comment to my It’s not about not offending post and I keep finding myself looking at it. I almost always feel like I’m representing a group – if not more than one group. When we lived in Alaska, I represented Caucasians. When we lived in Spain, I […]
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When talking about women in free software or political correctness in general, we seem to focus on saying things that “don’t offend” the minority group. But that’s not what it’s about. It’s about saying things that encourage people to join your group, that send the right message and represent our values. While not saying things
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While I’ve learned not to procrastinate, the truth is that I do procrastinate every once in a while. This isn’t a post about why I procrastinate but rather how I deal with it. Here’s how I deal with my own procrastination: Do the first step. Sometimes I procrastinate because the task is too large to
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One of the hardest things to learn in management is how not to do it all yourself. People often call this a problem with “delegation”. But the problem isn’t with telling others what to do. The problem is learning how not to do it all yourself. I talked earlier about how my style is to
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Bounties or grants are often suggested as a way companies can pay for work on free software projects. The GNOME community has had mixed results with bounties and grants, so when Funambol community manager Stefano Maffulli contacted me about a GNOME grant and said they'd had success using grants for Funambol, I thought it'd be
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