I've been finding myself less and less inclined to read semi-long articles so here is Kagi's summary: The author warns against accepting help from people who a

I've been finding myself less and less inclined to read semi-long articles so here is Kagi's summary: The author warns against accepting help from people who are not genuinely interested in helping further the goals of a project. While the offers may seem helpful, these people often waste time driving the project in the wrong direction to suit their own goals. They do not care about the original vision of the project, but instead want the project owner to help them. This was evident when someone offered to help scale up the author's social network, Xnet, without understanding that the author's goals were the opposite - to prove a social network can run on a tiny, low-power server. While scaling up Xnet may have been fun, it was not the purpose of the project. Therefore, the author advises to be wary of offers of "help" and sometimes it is best to do the project yourself.