Sharing is Caring - Narinder Singh Presentation at MonkiGras

Sharing is Caring… for People and Systems
In sharing craft we most often think about people. But the systems we have around us not only facilitate this, but often themselves reflect values of independence or cooperation. The topcoder community brings together designers, developers and data scientists to work in a highly repeatable and measurable way - creating millions of data points on how people work. Based on this information, numerous academic works from Harvard and MIT and plenty of zany anecdotes and real world examples reveal how sharing in and outside of disciplines shapes skills and capabilities in communities. Fruit flies and jujitsu will lead the way to enlightenment.

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1. 1   ©  2014  Appirio,  Inc.  -­‐  Confiden6al   Sharing is Caring …for People and Systems @singhns Narinder Singh Appirio | topcoder
2. 2   ©  2014  Appirio,  Inc.  -­‐  Confiden6al  
3. 3   ©  2014  Appirio,  Inc.  -­‐  Confiden6al  
4. 4   ©  2014  Appirio,  Inc.  -­‐  Confiden6al   Systems Can Share (Care) Too
5. 5   ©  2014  Appirio,  Inc.  -­‐  Confiden6al   ..expect higher levels of experimentation and wider breadth of search under final disclosures. On the other hand, a policy of intermediate disclosures accelerates knowledge sharing amongst the population of innovators. Intermediate disclosures also provide signals of the most productive existing technical approaches, generating a greater degree of common knowledge regarding the shape and outlines of the technological frontier. Designing a bioinformatics algorithm for comparing
6. 6   Suggestion number 8: join actively the community and try to know other(s), the fact that you compete with them doesn’t mean you are enemies! And watching their submissions is another source of power (feel like a vampire)
7. 7   ©  2014  Appirio,  Inc.  -­‐  Confiden6al  
8. 8   ©  2014  Appirio,  Inc.  -­‐  Confiden6al   Go with the flow or get it done ?
9. 9   ©  2014  Appirio,  Inc.  -­‐  Confiden6al  
13. 13   ©  2014  Appirio,  Inc.  -­‐  Confiden6al   Developers - Social and Anti Social One Offs
14. 14   ©  2014  Appirio,  Inc.  -­‐  Confiden6al  
16. 16   ©  2014  Appirio,  Inc.  -­‐  Confiden6al  
17. 17   THANK YOU ! @singhns
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