201: Real Rebels Pay Their Taxes with Nils Norman Haukås

02:58 - Nils’ Superpower: Storytelling

Practicing Presentation

Company/Employer-Sponsored Skill Training (such as storytelling/public speaking)

Taking Courses Unrelated to Your Own Skillset

09:39 - Deleting Code

Tension Around Deleting or Refactoring Others’ Code

Etiquette Around ^

Sharing Codebases

20:17 - Is it ethical to invest time in learning and using technologies from companies that pay little or no taxes?

Real Rebels Pay Their Taxes

Value of Everything | Mariana Mazzucato

The economics of open source by C J Silverio | JSConf EU 2019

The Entropic Package Manager

29:14 - What Can We Do About the Centralization of Power in Large Corporations?

Wanting an Alternative

Developer Purchasing Power

Nix VC Funding

Move Away From Framework-Thinking Web Components

Libraries

Less Competition Between Competitors

Learning the Basics

53:18 - Using Tools for Free as Forms of Support

Alternative Cost

Reflections:

John: Treating tax avoidance as a social negative.

Jacob: Not feeling pressure to use the next new, hot thing.

Nils: Practice arguing this problem. Software development is still an incredibly young field.

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