It’s ok to stop and smell the roses. Read the full post on Medium -> https://medium.com/@seanboltondotme/beauty-8cadf61f9510
The Product Experience of Mission Driven Companies
The Stories We Tell We all build up stories about the world based on preconceived ideas from culture and experience. This can cause us to make some very poor decisions such as when HP denied Steve Wozniak's multiple attempts to offer the personal computer or we assume those from underdeveloped countries are not capable of being entrepreneurs. “The stories we …
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Jazz and the Music of Every Day Work
Pauses in music define what you’ve heard and lay the groundwork for what you are about to hear. I value the pauses in my work because they act as defining moments where I am able to get in touch with what I am doing. Read the full post on Medium -> https://medium.com/@seanboltondotme/jazz-and-the-music-of-every-day-work-efcd4275ed01
Get The Gears Turning: A story of becoming unstuck
When you feel stuck in life, work, or anything, one tool I've always found to be helpful is to "go out and ask the world." Read the full post on Medium -> https://medium.com/@seanboltondotme/get-the-gears-turning-a86f13f58cf3
From the Furthest Edge to the Deepest Middle
In my role as Community Building Intern at Mozilla this summer, my goal has been to be explicit about how community building works so that people both internal and external to Mozilla can better understand and build upon this knowledge. This requires one of my favorite talents: connecting what emerges and making it a thing. …
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Mozilla CBT Build Principles
Making implicit information explicit allows us to grow. We are able to recognize and add to something that works well, while focusing less on what doesn't work well. Being explicit allows us to talk about something we do and/or experience - it allows this information to be shared and understood by others. When we focus …
Winning Startup Weekend (SF)
This was my second Startup Weekend. My team won! I was CEO and co-founder, partnered with two good friends (my co-founders) who were CTO and CDO. We created an app called Nikomu which was about connecting people through cooking together. For many many years I've been interested in how people connect through technology and this …
Hygge
There is no direct English translation for the Danish word 'hygge.' Google will often translate it to cozy but this commonly heard phrase means so much more. The best I can explain it is to imagine that feeling of being close to other people that comes with sitting in your living room around the fireplace …
Exploring Contributor Motivation
Why does understanding motivation for open source matter? This allows community builders to design more fulfilling experiences for contributors. It allows a contributor to be recognized in way he or she prefers. It allows community builders to advocate for projects that would be exciting to contributors. The challenge of studying motivation (and thus recognition) is …
Community Lessons from LEGO (and other thoughts on community)
Communities form when you find a group of people that you feel you can be yourself around. In this environment, you don’t have to self-edit as much to fit in. You get the feeling that these people share a similar view of the world in some way. Communities form when the answer to, “are they …
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