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The Trend Towards Open Core : Evolving Strategies for Open Source Monetisation
2018 was the watershed year for the open core model, where you create value through hosted services and closed source add-ons.
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The Patron Driven Value Proposition : What Business Can Learn From Libraries
Great ideas are often met with fierce resistance and then suddenly become the new norm seemingly over-night.
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The Best of Both Worlds : How to Build a Company While Sticking to Open Source
The professor’s privilege and means that researchers can do what they want with whatever they create. Which if you’re in software usually just means you publish your code on GitHub and move on to the next research project.
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Preparing For the Next War : Carlota Perez on Why the Future Won’t Look Like the Past
Reading Carlota Perez feels like looking at one of those images doctors use to diagnose colour blindness; where before there was just a jumble of dots, patterns emerge.
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Distributed Cognition
When you forget the details of some complicated concept and have to consult an external resource, that’s distributed cognition.
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What Doing Looks Like : Why We Struggle with Productivity and How to Fix It
I’d like to be a bit like Mrs. Whiting myself. She knows where she wants to go and she can turn that crystal clear vision into manageable chunks of action.
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Ise Ise Baby : Coherent Ising Machines and the New Frontier of Non-Von Neumann Computing
The approach is one of the most promising candidates among “non-Von Neumann” computer architectures.
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My Cup of Tea : A Reflection on Craft
Every move the bar man man makes while preparing my tea is perfectly measured, it’s like watching a Tai-Chi master.
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Making Sense of the World : the Entangled Perspectives of Camilla Pang and Julia Ravanis
Two of the best science books I’ve come across in a good while: Explaining Humans by Camilla Pang, and Skönheten i Kaos by Julia Ravanis. Reading them back to back created an impression of perfect symmetry.
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Stockholm We Have a Problem : Public Sector IT Failures and the Case for Open Source
Sweden has become a unicorn factory and programming is one of the most common occupations, but successful IT-projects are rare outside of the private sector.
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The Price of Change : Paying Citizens to Make Better Choices
What would happen if instead of encouraging people with subtle queues, you’d simply pay them cash?
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On Focus: The Power of Switching Between Attention and Diffusion
Our brains are built to toggle back and forth between sharp and fuzzy. Proper learning can only happen in the interplay between daydreaming and attention
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The Subtle Art of Giving a F*ck : Kim Scott on Radical Candor
A good boss have to offer very direct feedback. For that not to be brutal, you must invest in the relationship beyond what’s often thought of as professional.
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The 2021 Reading List
My taste in books is… eclectic
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At the Crossroads of Intellectual Property and Software Engineering
The ins- and outs of open hardware; the power and perils of building your products on top of FOSS-stacks; the dos and don’ts with design patenting, and so much more.