Who's Your Data?

I have had the opportunity to work in several different types of environments in my career. I started out working for the U.S. Congress at a support agency called the Office of Technology Assessment, or OTA for short. And have since worked for a Wall Street bank, for a small con-sulting company at a multinational technology company and at Emu Software, the corporate sponsor of the open source system console project, NetDirector, that I Co-Founded in 2003. This diversity provides me with a perspective on the degree of “opinionatedness” that people have in different industries. No where, in my experience, are people even half as opinionated as they are in open source.

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Nature fascinates me. In particular, I think it is amazing how some would-be competitors actually come to rely on each other. Take the example of the sea anemone and the clown fish. Anemones usually eat fish, and fish usually eat plants. However, in the case of the clown fish and certain anemones, they’ve found that they are better off working together. The clown fish gets extra protection by burying itself in the anemone’s tenta-cles and the anemone gobbles up the clown fish’s crumbs. Good deal.

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