Comments on: Competition vs. Community

By: Chad Bercea

Chad Bercea — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:54:37 +0000

hey man, love using your web form, when do you think we’ll see that branding form??? im sitting on pins and needles!!! :D

By: Nicholas Petersen

Nicholas Petersen — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:40:59 +0000

good words!
just met a couple of the paper family, and i they seem like they’ll be helpful in the future. I would love to meet the print and branding papers. I think we’d get along quite well.
let me know if they are around any time soon.

nicholas

By: Dave Nelson

Dave Nelson — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:49:23 +0000

Steve, Justin, Caleb and Superstix – Thanks so much for the kind words! I agree completely, collaboration is going to make our industry stronger and more fun to work in.

I need to find time to finish putting up the rest of the Paper Family!

Thanks again! Yow!

By: Superstix

Superstix — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:34:48 +0000

You rule! I love the paper family! When are the paper family t-shirts coming out? ;-)

By: Caleb

Caleb — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:46:56 +0000

This is great to read!
It resonates with my recent thoughts on creating and sharing quality content with others.
Fear and conniving don’t foster vital creativity and community. The companies that continue to play by the old rules are missing out.

Thanks for being such a great example!

By: Justin Kemerling

Justin Kemerling — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:46:18 +0000

Collaboration is king; the ideas of open source and the creative commons way of sharing what we know to get to the better outcome, the pooling of our knowledge that leads to greater innovation in a collective exercise of intelligence. Having winners and losers has always made me uneasy. Thanks for your project and for talking about the need for more community to help everyone thrive. -justin

By: Steve G.

Steve G. — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:08:05 +0000

Dave,

This only reaffirms what I tell everyone about you; You are the most genuine and decent person I know. I truly do aspire to be more like you because you are a very good example of a good person. Those values have been inexorably linked to your business.

Competition and cut-throat tendencies are so very apparent in our creative community. It really is detrimental to a lot of the efforts that are being talked about but not acted upon, namely co-working and collaboration. You and I know about it well from our cultures of skate, BMX, sports & sneakers. The divisions between skate/blades/BMX has hampered the culture on the whole for a long time. Conversely, the sneakerhead community absolutely soared when the “x.” started to appear between two names, meaning “collaboration”.

Props to you, my friend! And thanks, RDQLUS loves Secret Penguin & the Paper Fam! ;-)