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Enabling a Collaborative and Welcoming Open Source Community

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

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The Power of the Outsider, the Curse of Knowledge

The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that it's really hard to remember what it was like before you didn't know something. So with the power of the outsider, we as maintainers and as contributors to the product, we think about this curse of knowledge a lot. Our goal is for pants to be extremely egonomic and intuitive for anyone to use. Intuitive meaning you can figure it out on your own. You don't need to read our docks. We try to assume that 80 % of our users will never end up reading our docks, and can they figureout how to use pants even without that. It brings me back to our last thought cast, where we discuss the topic

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