quiet-the-power-of-introverts-in-a-world-that-cant-stop-talking-susan-cain

professionals working in the U.S., the
U.K., and Australia between 1982 and
1984. “It’s a truism in tech that open
source attracts introverts,” says Dave
W. Smith, a consultant and software developer
in Silicon Valley, referring to
the practice of producing software by
opening the source code to the online
public and allowing anyone to copy,
improve upon, and distribute it. Many
of these people were motivated by a desire
to contribute to the broader good,
and to see their achievements recognized
by a community they valued.
But the earliest open-source creators
didn’t share office space—often they
didn’t even live in the same country.
Their collaborations took place largely
in the ether. This is not an insignificant
detail. If you had gathered the same
people who created Linux, installed
them in a giant conference room for a
238/929