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Tag: the art of asking

  • Launching my Patreon page

    In June, I launched IWantTo.Support, a website dedicated to displaying people and projects that you can support. Not just by helping them, but also financially. For a long time I’ve been thinking about this. While helping a project or developer by coding, documenting or promoting, it sometimes is actually nice to help them by buying…

  • You need to do what you need to do

    One of the topics in The Art of Asking that I think more developers should be aware of is that you need to do what you need to do to do your thing. This sounds vague, but it is true. In the book, Amanda Palmer uses several examples of how this works for artists, but…

  • The Judge

    Sometimes it feels like we are in a constant courtroom: We, all of us, constantly judge other people. And I mean, constantly. The person you see on TV, the person that walks by you on the street, the person that comes to your door when you get a delivery. The judging can be based on…

  • Coming out of the box

    Asking for help. Once you start thinking about it, it is really hard to do. It doesn’t really matter what you need help with, it is hard once you start wondering whether you should ask. In The Art of Asking Amanda Palmer writes about Anthony. Anthony is a professional therapist who helps people in hard…

  • We are all artists

    I’ve written on this topic before, but as Amanda Palmer touched the topic in her book I felt it was a good idea to write about it again, this time on my blog. Especially since the angle is slightly different. In my contribution to Stuart Herbert’s book I talk about the need to be proud…

  • UWYC: Use what you can

    In her book, Amanda Palmer talks about DIY, and how when you start asking for help, Do It Yourself is a strange term. Instead, she suggests UWYC, which stands for Use What You Can. I think software developers can learn a lot from this mindset. As Palmer says: I have no interest in Doing It…

  • The Art of Asking

    With Ingewikkeld we’ve sent out a gift to some customers and other contacts. A book that has nothing to do with PHP. While this may seem odd, it definitely isn’t. What book? The Art Of Asking by Amanda Palmer. Amanda Palmer? Who is she? Amanda Palmer is an artist. Performance artist, musician, cabaret punker, living…