How to Win
summary
Claims that purpose-driven work beats money as motivation, illustrated by running a Ruby consultancy and open source work: author of the mail gem (6M+ downloads) and maintainer of ActionMailer for Rails 3, who read 23 RFCs to implement email correctly. Built a full production monitoring product from a 48‑hour Rails Rumble hackathon (uses Rails and Cucumber checks). Runs a 10‑person shop in Sydney, speaks at ~22 business events, spent 11 years in volunteer work, and distills success to exchange in abundance and aligned purpose.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:48Open source and volunteering
- 10:05Success purpose motivation
- 19:20Motivation and duty
- 25:20Purpose alignment
- 31:00Success formula
- 38:53Exchange and morale
- 42:48Summary
- 43:13Q&A
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