The Coder’s dilemma
courstesy of wikipedia
Trust is vital in any open source community, although it is through absolute strangers.
This is an interesting concept though: can you trust someone you’ve never met and can you trust someone you know well if they’ve let you down?
It is often a lot easier to trust someone you’ve never met. This is how friendships are established after all – you trust until someone lets you down.
Yet, you do trust yourself even though you, well should, know yourself really well. You know when you’ve let yourself down. But you should have trust in yourself. You will screw up, everyone makes mistakes, but without that ability to forgive, you can’t move on.
Posted: December 18th, 2008 under 42, Social Networks.