> I spent a lot of last year urging people to work on stuff that matters.
Is there some article/post where O'Reilly gives the background?
In the article, the above sentence contains a link, but it is surprisingly unhelpful. It leads to a Google search. The first hit is this article. The second is a video I have neither the time nor the inclination to watch. The third is basically a collection of quotes. The fourth and fifth are comments on a talk O'Reilly gave. The sixth is just a wrapper around a link to this article. The seventh is another comment on a talk. The eighth is another video. And I'm getting tired of clicking on useless links.
This was a reaction to the 2008 financial crisis. I believe that Tim first started publicly talking about this at a keynote during OSCON. A year later he gave a more evolved version at a publishers conference that he runs.
I'm working on research for an open data project and have been revisiting thousands of bookmarks I'd saved over the years. Decided to read it again and was struck with how relevant it still was six years after he wrote it. Kind of true with both PG's and Tim's essays is that they are both timeless.
Is there some article/post where O'Reilly gives the background?
In the article, the above sentence contains a link, but it is surprisingly unhelpful. It leads to a Google search. The first hit is this article. The second is a video I have neither the time nor the inclination to watch. The third is basically a collection of quotes. The fourth and fifth are comments on a talk O'Reilly gave. The sixth is just a wrapper around a link to this article. The seventh is another comment on a talk. The eighth is another video. And I'm getting tired of clicking on useless links.