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professionals working in the U.S., theU.K., and Australia between 1982 and1984. “It’s a truism in tech that opensource attracts introverts,” says DaveW. Smith, a consultant and software developerin Silicon Valley, referring tothe practice of producing software byopening the source code to the onlinepublic and allowing anyone to copy,improve upon, and distribute it. Manyof these people were motivated by a desireto contribute to the broader good,and to see their achievements recognizedby a community they valued.But the earliest open-source creatorsdidn’t share office space—often theydidn’t even live in the same country.Their collaborations took place largelyin the ether. This is not an insignificantdetail. If you had gathered the samepeople who created Linux, installedthem in a giant conference room for a238/929
year, and asked them to devise a newoperating system, it’s doubtful that anythingso revolutionary would have occurred—forreasons we’ll explore in therest of this chapter.239/929When the research psychologist AndersEricsson was fifteen, he took up chess.He was pretty good at it, he thought,trouncing all his classmates duringlunchtime matches. Until one day a boywho’d been one of the worst players inthe class started to win every match.Ericsson wondered what hadhappened. “I really thought about this alot,” he recalls in an interview withDaniel Coyle, author of The Talent Code.“Why could that boy, whom I hadbeaten so easily, now beat me just as
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year, and asked them to devise a new
operating system, it’s doubtful that anything
so revolutionary would have occurred—for
reasons we’ll explore in the
rest of this chapter.
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When the research psychologist Anders
Ericsson was fifteen, he took up chess.
He was pretty good at it, he thought,
trouncing all his classmates during
lunchtime matches. Until one day a boy
who’d been one of the worst players in
the class started to win every match.
Ericsson wondered what had
happened. “I really thought about this a
lot,” he recalls in an interview with
Daniel Coyle, author of The Talent Code.
“Why could that boy, whom I had
beaten so easily, now beat me just as
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