1.
Personal Development Insights
from Open Source
Kartik Subbarao
Consultant
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subbarao@computer.org
Twitter: @kartiksubbarao
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2.
Paying Attention
Open source is not guaranteed to increase personal development,
but it can provide an environment that facilitates certain aspects
particularly well
We still have to pay attention
We can attend to, and not just react to external events, and the
internal thoughts, feelings, sensations that accompany them

3.
Introspection
Good for debugging software, good for debugging the mind
From retrospection, to read-only access, to read/write access
Self-consciousness is like debugging with the overhead of extra
print statements; Self-awareness is real-time introspection with
optimization enabled

4.
Scarcity

5.
Abundance

6.
Giving Freely
Giving without strings attached
Scenario: contributing to an open source project
How scarcity shows up in our community conversations
Gratitude (abundance) vs guilt (scarcity)
http://opensource.com/business/11/4/open-source-giving-freely-
and-self-awareness

7.
Taking Mindfully
Experiencing abundance in one area can influence other areas
Taking without compulsively grasping
Being able to leave things on the table, without sacrificing the
ability to seize opportunities

8.
Identities and Roles
How exclusively do we identify with our roles? How exclusively do
we identify others as their roles?
How much of ourselves do we bring to our roles?
How Open Source can help
Reintegrating fragmentary identities

9.
Stephen Covey's
Maturity Continuum

10.
Mutual Dependence

11.
Emergent Interdependence
Also see: http://kartiksubbarao.com/open-source-and-interdependent-it