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When open source partners can't agree on decision-making processes

My co-founder and I believe in open source collaboration but we've realized we both have completely different ideas about what 'consensus decision-making' means and we're stuck on every major choice because neither of us wants to be the one making unilateral calls.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people committed to collaborative leadership are paralyzed by their own ideals about shared authority.

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“Where Are You with Open source as philosophy?”

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