I've been reading "Working in Public" by Nadia Eghbal. It definitely struck a chord with me on the nature of dealing with contributors *on GitHub*; however, at least so far (I'm only about a tenth of the way in), I'm frustrated by Eghbal's conflation of the world of open source software development with the subset that happens on and around GitHub, and even with a particular group of prominent developers. No doubt, there is a lot of gravity around that platform, but I'm still convinced that there's important work that only incidentally interacts with GitHub that is missed by this focus.
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( I'm going to continue to post in this thread about the book as in reading it, mostly to keep me going, since I often stop reading books part way through more from distraction than as a positive choice.)
I'm still reading this book, albeit slowly.
there are some rather poorly constructed arguments in here. like, in chapter 3 there's this claim that Facebook's news feed was a "highway system" to the web in an effort to explain "context collapse" and the dissolution of online communities through a "flood of newcomers". Facebook's platform is irrelevant to how open source software development evolved though. Even as an analogy to GitHub, it doesn't work because GitHub isn't like Facebook when it comes to how's communities use them.
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