Open sourcing ideas – A hacker approach to working and learning
Open sourcing ideas. A hacker approach to working and learning – What can we learn from the ‘hacker’ approach to work and learning? What does this comparison reveal about the nature of work and its place in society? (read more) Connected Magazine, Feb 9th, 2002. Updated Mar 16th, 2020…
Open sourcing ideas – A hacker approach to working and learning
We often use words to say much less than they could! Take the word ‘work’ for example. In our Western culture, evoking the word invariably calls up images of activities organised in time and space that are carried out essentially to earn money.
The following thoughts about work and learning were sparked by the first part of a book by Pekka Himanen called “The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age”.…