One of my favorite blogs had a good post today and I decided to share it with you. Have a look at 37singals’ post titled Giving the trick away gave nothing away, because you still couldn’t grasp it
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The main argument is that giving away the recipe of how you do something shouldn’t be considered as a disadvantage or some kind of threat to your expertise. The recipe is one part of the story. What is needed also is the skill, the performance and to fully understand the particular problem you are solving. This is not something that you can cultivate right away by just reading a blog post or a paper. This is something that builds up with the years,… or simply put, the more often you do something the better you become at it. Sometimes, courses and training help a lot.
Part of what we do at Hakiri and the other sister organizations (GNUCITIZEN and SpinHunters) is to give our experience away for free. We love doing it and we get rewarded in different ways. These rewards are often not related to money at all. There are other currencies in this world that are much more valuable nowadays. We realize, and that is through experience, that the more we share the more rewards we receive and almost nothing is taken away from us.
So there you have it… yet another recipe to keep an eye on but don’t just sit on the idea… practice it.
