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I agree with you in some regards and I think this is a great point (not because I agree with you, of course ;) .) However, I think jgrahamc and you are speakin
by bjcy 14y ago
I agree with you in some regards and I think this is a great point (not because I agree with you, of course ;) .)
However, I think jgrahamc and you are speaking to different things. There is documentation, much like our parents did when we went to the beach as a toddler and we took that picture with mom and the sandcastle, and then there is personal curation that lives in narcissism and strikes me as dishonest (or too honest, perhaps).
There is sharing triumphs and failures, and then there is bounding triumph and failure with one's personal accounts as to make the world about the documenter instead of about the documenter as part of, well, the world.
I'm not sure I have this idea completely worked out as this seems subjective and who can really judge another's motives with absolute certainty. All I know is there is a fine line and we would be careful to hold ourselves to a standard that encourages sharing life without making life about ourselves.
After all, you can't be open source (which we LOVE) when you're all closed-sourcey yourself.
Anyway, just a little food for thought that came into my head with your observations.