Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

This is simple. Have more people working with you, and success is much more likely to come your way.

This one cannot be overstated. Linus Torvalds is famous for stating it, but many others have also stated it many times over many years.

Anything that increases the number of people working a problem is good. This is how hackers break into unbreakable systems, they have more people working on breaking the system than the builders had making the system.

This is the “secret” of open-source software and the new news media and so on.

• Everyone is a sensor.
• Everyone is a photographer.
• Everyone is a writer.
• Everyone is a public speaker.
• Everyone is a publisher.
• Everyone is a programmer.
• Everyone is a hacker.
• Everyone is in the game.

Fighting everyone? Good luck. The numbers are against you.