A polite—and timid—call to arms

Published Thu, Jan 3, 2013 by Austin Govella. Updated Thu, Jan 3, 2013.

In 2006, Adam Greenfield published a polite — and perhaps too timid — call to arms where he talked about his decision to “IA or Not IA”, he makes several important observations that are:

• less about the community and more about what you are doing to the community;
• less about the practice and more about what you are doing to the practice;
• less about the discipline and more about what you are doing to the discipline.

It’d be nice if you stopped for ten minutes and answered his implied questions for yourself:

• What are you doing to the community?
• What are you doing to the practice?
• What are you doing to the discipline?

There are no wrong answers. Manifestos are due Monday morning.