The SoaS team
Sebastian, Frederick, Aleksey and Simon are making me smile. Well, more like jump around the room in awe! The latest SoaS snapshots has an impressive list of improvements and it sounds like there will more soon. Also I know they are making great progress on stream 2, the one based on Fedora 11. I have no words, go team!
I’ve been busy with job transition in the last few weeks and I had a good reason to experiment more with visibility cycles. They works impressively well. A couple of years ago someone told me:
“Oh, I remember. I also remember a man who just stepped up and tried new things, who just did it because it made sense to him and created the change that he wanted to see in the world through direct action. No whining, no bullshit, just executing and learning as you went. That’s you today, too. Your best quality. You probably don’t know this but it’s a rare quality.”
What I learned since then is that most of the time you can’t create changes in the world alone. And I learned it the hard way, by failing and burning myself out. Ideas are social artifacts, we come up with them in first place because they might be useful to someone. We can’t own them, we should set them free and let them grow in someone else hands.
In a community setting you need to come up with a solid prototype of your idea, share it in it’s incompleteness and then hide as fast as you can. You don’t disappear, you keep teaching what you learned and removing road blocks. But you let someone else lead, take the whole space and run.