Some times, a blog is not paragraphs of text. It is just one beautiful idea or a philosophy, you resonate with. When you see something this good, you want to share it and know what others think.
Great thoughts by Scott Chacon on Handy Tools for Optimizing Your Team.
I don’t think it applies just to developers. This may be the assumptions with which we want to welcome any new member into a team, community or organization. We can assume that they have these qualities unless proven wrong.
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I have a confession to make. This is not how I always looked at people. It took me a long time to figure out even some of the basic ideas of how to work with people.