benbalter

311 karmajoined August 30, 2011On HN

Ben Balter. Spent more than a decade at GitHub, most recently as Director of Hubber Enablement. Former Presidential Innovation Fellow; recovering lawyer turned engineer/PM.

Wrote Open and Async, a playbook for working in the open and communicating asynchronously — the open-source way of working, turned into a method for teams: https://open-and-async.com

https://ben.balter.com · https://github.com/benbalter

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How I over-engineered my book ben.balter.com
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Show HN: An MCP server that turns async-work practices into tools github.com/open-and-async
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No Agenda, No Meeting noagendanomeeting.net
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Practice Inclusive Scheduling ben.balter.com
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Pull requests are a form of documentation ben.balter.com
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Meetings are a point of escalation, not the starting point of a conversation ben.balter.com
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Nine things a (technical) program manager does ben.balter.com
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Resolutions for Sustaining and Growing Open Source Communities hackernoon.com
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Use any theme with GitHub Pages github.com/blog
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SUPPORT file support on GitHub github.com/blog
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Open source license descriptions and metadata for GitHub repositories github.com/blog
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Behind GitHub's decision to standardize on one Markdown engine for GitHub Pages github.com/blog
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Upgrading your Textile posts to Markdown github.com/blog
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The six types of pull requests you see on GitHub ben.balter.com
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25 reasons why you should consume, publish, contribute to, and support open source ben.balter.com
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Four characteristics of modern collaboration tools ben.balter.com
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Contribute to OpenStreetMap from GitHub github.com/blog
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Speak like a human: 12 ways tech companies can write less-corporate blog posts ben.balter.com
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Lessons learned hacking on GitHub Pages for six months github.com/blog
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