Embracing Collaboration and Monetization in Open Source

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This chapter explores the Wu-Tang Clan model applied to open-source projects, emphasizing collaboration and shared value creation. It discusses the challenges of monetizing open source, the speaker's perspective on NDAs, and the importance of letting go of projects when necessary. The conversation also touches on mental well-being in tech, the purpose of work, and humorously recounts a call from the future on a podcast.

Our friend Ron Evans is a technologist for hire, an open source developer, an author, a speaker, an iconoclast, and one of our favorite people in tech. This conversation with Ron goes everywhere: from high-altitude weather balloons, to life on Mars, to Zeno’s paradox applied to ML, to what open source devs should learn from the Wu-Tang Clan & more.

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