Matt Will
Matt Will
fascinated
I'm fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.
money paying religion send word
I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.
good
I do think 'The Notebook' is a darn good movie.
family love
I don't feel guilty about it, but I love me some 'Modern Family.'
For me, open source is a moral thing.
benevolent design dictator great main mark open source web
There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.
best people work
We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.
work
Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.
believe ideology people personally software strongly
While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.
good hard otherwise single treading work
If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.
happens matter redundant services swan unlike whatever
I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!
good money opportunity ways
Particularly if you're a good engineer, there's a lot of ways you can make money, but to actually have an impact on the world is rare, and when you find an opportunity for that, it's very special.
applied bubble information lots open source wikipedia
If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.