Writer and researcher
Nadia Eghbal (now Nadia Asparouhova) is a writer and researcher who explores how the internet enables individual creators, known for her influential book Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. She previously worked at GitHub to improve the open source developer experience and authored the Ford Foundation report Roads and Bridges.
by Nadia Eghbal
Eghbal reframes open source as a production problem, maintainers are more like creators than factory workers. The real challenge is manageing the attention costs that contributors impose.
The books Nadia Eghbal references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Paul Graham
Graham argues that hackers and painters share more in common than hackers and engineers. Great software, like great art, comes from taste, empathy, and the courage to challenge conventional thinking.
Who Nadia draws from, and who draws from Nadia — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.