[Weekend Drop] swyx on Dev Community & Deep Work vs Learning in Public

<p><strong>Audio Source</strong>: <a href="https://share.transistor.fm/s/d717f16d">https://share.transistor.fm/s/d717f16d</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/lotusleafstyle/status/1381973661607936003">Follow Julia Che's</a> work on <a href="https://twitter.com/Openessdev">Openess</a>, her new open source funding/community startup.</p><p><strong>Topics Discussed </strong><br> <br><em>in sequential order, but timestamps arent available bc the audio has been cleaned.<br></em><br></p><ul> <li>Swyx shares about his background, previous career in finance, Gamestop &amp; shorting it, transitioning to tech at age 30, community building.</li> <li>What it means to be a GitHub star, what’s so appealing about open-source &amp; why participate?</li> <li>"Open-source sets tech apart from every other industry because we share so much.”</li> <li>Figma CTO Evan Wallace’s design tool, esbuild.</li> <li>The future of open-source, corporatization of open-source.</li> <li>The biggest pain points in open-source.</li> <li>GitHub sponsors, Patreon and HackerOne.</li> <li>Learning in public, React and the beginner's mind</li> <li><strong>Deep work vs. learning in public, Andy Matuschak’s working with the garage door up.</strong></li> <li>On creators being enslaved by their own structures and systems in producing creative content.</li> <li><strong>Living your life in high-definition, idea velocity.</strong></li> <li><strong>Building a personal brand as a developer.</strong></li> <li>The Developer’s Journey &amp; community building.</li> <li><strong>Diversity, equity &amp; inclusion in open-source.</strong></li> <li>Where open-source devs could use a helping hand.</li> <li>Governance</li> <li><strong>“Ultimately software is an expression of values and if you fundamentally disagree with the values of the people running the project, then you will eventually disagree with the code as well because it will just encode the values over time. Having welcoming and inclusive values is important.”</strong></li> <li>Swyx’s favorite open-so