Finding Practical Applications for Your Passion Projects
summary
Grew an international charity from 2 → 6000 volunteers and completes 250,000+ jobs, partners with the Library of Congress and others, and proves accessibility decisions matter by halting work to move Slack → Rocket.Chat for screen‑reader support. Builds tooling pragmatically: uses errbot then replaces it with a one-week custom chatbot to stop fighting the platform, incorporates a 501(c)(3) for legal and financial scale, and recommends shipping a tight v1, killing beloved but useless features, and recruiting people who think differently.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07Practical applications matter
- 4:44Understanding passion deeply
- 8:39Breaking out of your bubble
- 16:51Choosing tools wisely
- 20:07Frameworks for teams
- 24:22Solid groundwork
- 27:56Key takeaways
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