By now I’ve
- Written a heavily featured course
- Helped land a helicopter on Mars (According to Github)
- Written multiple featured articles
- Worked for companies in Asia, Europe, Africa and America
- Worked more for the Silicon Valley
- Spoken at great conferences even against global talk competition
- Mentored 100+ cool folks, including FAANG engineers in OpenSource
- Hit hacker news front page
- Organized a conference that saw nice speakers from Google, Microsoft, ElasticSearch, RedHat, the US government, CERN etc
- Written featured libraries
- …
By the grace of the Almighty, I owe it to opensource
And folks in my own country, Mauritius, tell me they don’t have time.
For such a useless activity.
I mean,
- how can you sabotage your own career?
- how can you limit your economic prospects?
- how can you throw amazing opportunities under the bus?
- how can you pass up the opportunity to meet wonderful friends?
- how can you dunk an exciting, fulfilling developer life?
You work to achieve these 5 points, don’t you?
And then, you lecture people about careers, being top achievers, impact, and social good. All while demeaning OpenSource contributors.
Some hard corporate wake-up is needed.
For my part, I am preparing to scale the pace by which I help people in tech.