Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software Highlight

Kristen Roupenian, reflecting upon her experience after her short story in The New Yorker, “Cat Person,” went viral, describes it this way: The word I keep reaching for, even though it seems melodramatic, is annihilating. To be faced with all those people thinking and talking about me was like standing alone, at the center of a stadium, while thousands of people screamed at me at the top of their lungs. Not for me, at me. I guess some people might find this exhilarating. I did not.