{"id":899,"date":"2013-06-03T22:16:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T04:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2013-06-03T22:16:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T04:16:02","slug":"fun-and-enjoyment-when-projects-involve-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/fun-and-enjoyment-when-projects-involve-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun and enjoyment when projects involve others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe we&#8217;re social beings, and that we succeed or fail based on the quality of our interactions with others. Such interactions introduce accountability and\u00a0are educational and motivating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/552243\/\">Jake Edge reports<\/a> that when Linus Torvalds was asked what motivated him to write Linux, the answer was that<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If Linux hadn&#8217;t attracted other people right away, the project probably\u00a0would have died within six months. But the involvement of others was a\u00a0&#8220;huge motivating factor&#8221; for [Linus] to continue, because it &#8220;made it much\u00a0more fun<em id=\"__mceDel\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><em id=\"__mceDel\">&#8220;.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe we&#8217;re social beings, and that we succeed or fail based on the quality of our interactions with others. Such interactions introduce accountability and\u00a0are educational and motivating. Jake Edge reports that when Linus Torvalds was asked what motivated him to write Linux, the answer was that If Linux hadn&#8217;t attracted other people right away, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/fun-and-enjoyment-when-projects-involve-others\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fun and enjoyment when projects involve others&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}