I'm the owner of Domain51, author of the first published book on Git and quickly becoming a rabid Lawrencian. On here I write about the business, our code, our clients, our mission. My code is online, my status is pretty easy to figure out, and in case you want to stalk me, I'm pretty easy to find.
This is a massive problem in the non-profit sector from my vantage point. People inside it get so focused on one particular task that they lose sight of the bigger picture. Rather than step back and look at the problem as a whole, they ask how they can fix one problem right in front of them.
The concept of “scale” is at the heart of many people’s definition of social entrepreneurship. The field is meant to produce organizations with transformational potential across the scope of a problem. At the same time, traditional community development and local nonprofit folks sometimes bristle (reasonably) at the notion that their work is somehow less important because they’re not trying to replicate their model in every city,
