"There's a name for people who work for the love of it: amateurs. Amateurs often surpass professionals in what they choose to do, because they love what they are doing". He also points out that in the age of the internet, which has made collaboration extremely easy, large corporations find it difficult to compete with software produced by a bunch of inspired hackers. Paul also takes a dig at workplaces as we know them and illustrates how the most productive phase of any company is when it is still a startup. (...)
What they mean by "blogger" is not someone who publishes in a weblog format, but anyone who publishes online. Those in the print media who dismiss the writing online because of its low average quality are missing an important point: no one reads the average blog. (...) The third big lesson we can learn from open source and blogging is that ideas can bubble up from the bottom, instead of flowing down from the top. Open source and blogging both work bottom-up: people make what they want, and the best stuff prevails. The other thing I like about publishing online is that you can write what you want and publish when you want.
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