In my previous post I wrote about Culture for Collaboration. One thing I didn’t go into was that in order to create a culture of collaboration, you must first establish basic trust. Trust is something that is extremely hard to just “establish”, it is something you earn.

"It is so cumbersome to have go round talking to people and submitting pull requests. Can’t we just go ahead and just duplicate or do whatever we want? Yes, working together and collaborating is hard.

To me focus is binary, you either have it or you don’t. You can’t somewhat focus on something. Either you do it or you don’t. I also have a strong opinion that focus can only be kept on one thing, if you’re a human without mutations.

Yesterday I tweeted that “I’d rather choose someone with experience from kindergarden than some one from the armed forces as a leader”. It might seem like good old fashioned trolling, but I am serious.

Being part of the Web Rebels conference organizers is an amazing learning experience. I get to learn so many things that I a been hating with a genuine passion for years. I am not very good at organizing my finances, I have never understood accounting and I most certainly have not once been able to deliver an expense report correctly.