The secret of stunning OSS contributions! I've changed my life for Hanami! | Hanami Mastery - a knowledge base to hanami framework
One of such things was to always keep your income higher than outcome. The other was a truly remarkable movie The greatest showman which pointed into the danger of prioritizing things that should not be prioritized in exchange for neglecting others - more important.
The only suggestion I'd have for anybody who considers contributing to OSS is this: do it only if it directly benefits you and be 100% selfish in a good way... Don't fix other people's problems as long as it doesn't benefit you directly in the short term. Piotr Solnica
This was awesome, it really triggered something in my head. I would consider it as a Wow! moment in my life when I've read it.
Open Source contributions are often pretty much charity work. You don't get paid for it, you don't get too much appreciation or recognition.
However, If you'd like to really focus on open-source contributions, and contribute like crazy, full-time, or whatever, it's obvious you need to take care of your stability first.
