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The most successful developers share more than they take - Stack Overflow Blog

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After interviewing several developers, a pattern started to become clear: great developers share a lot. This takes different forms for different people, but is very often a blog. But for many top developers, their sharing mindset came before their success, and was the direct cause of it, not the result of it.

Ever since I started programming and discovered the open source world, I confess I’ve been a little obsessed with the elite developers in our communities. People who lead large open source projects (and often many of them) or direct large teams commercially. What is about them that got them to where they are? The software community has an abundance of advice and support on how to become a better developer, how to progress your career, and develop personally; I like to think programmers are pretty good at self-introspection and closing their own feedback loops. So amid a sea of extremely qualif

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