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The radiating programmer
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It’s indeed by comparison that radiating information shines: instead of having someone pulling information from you, you push the information out there for everyone. It might look subtle, but there is a significant difference: the control remains on your side, not anyone else’s.
This ties to my method of working as well, as well as Ben Balter’s 15 rules for communicating at GitHub that we relied on heavily at Mapbox.
A downside, aside from the mentioned one about time, is that it requires good writing, communication, and empathy skills (for others’ time) of all of your teammates. But is that a downside, or just hard — and worth it — to achieve?