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Hackers and Skateboarders

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Jay Fink
Feb 3, 2018

A few years ago Rodney Mullen gave a TEDx talk about the similarities between skateboarding and (Open Source) Innovation . At the time, a handful of technical people left some messages on the youtube page about the talks that went something along the lines of this: We really need to get people like this out of these talks (as in non-technical). Those comments are gone now. Anyway, here is an article about the similarities.

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Jay Fink

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