Breaking out of the ‘comfort zone’ with open source

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 30, 2015

But despite all the good, there was something very dangerous in that environment, something I couldn’t notice at that time: isolation. I’m not talking about working alone at home???that’s never been a problem for me. I’m talking about spending too much time inside a comfort zone, satisfied with the knowledge I already had. Everyone’s at risk???whether you’re working from home or in an office full of people.

I deviated from my goal of developing cool apps and found myself engaged in the “blog business.” I didn’t have confidence in my programming skills, and how could I? I was isolated in my own little world where I didn’t see other people’s code, and nobody saw mine.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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