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Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give - Kenneth Reitz (kennethreitz.org)

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I was at a tech conference in Sweden when it started. I hadn't slept in days. I was one of the most prolific open source developers in the Python ecosystem, maintaining the most downloaded HTTP library on Earth, keynoting conferences across the world, and I was losing my mind in a hotel room six thousand miles from home.

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[-] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 30 points 2 weeks ago

That was an impactful read thanks for sharing it. People who build open source pour so much of themselves into it and I can absolutely see it becoming unhealthy easily, in many different ways, and the culture not being able to identify someone is unwell.

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