The World We Can Shape Out of Breakdowns and Breakthroughs
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Claims that remote work and cross-border payments expand opportunity, that traditional credentials are breaking as hiring signals, and that hands-on open source can replace interviews. Describes GitHub Sponsors as a payments path and a built MLH Fellowship remote-first internship: 144 students working on 30+ open source projects over a summer with 10 partner companies. Reports concrete results—merged PRs, newsletter features, and faster hiring evidence—so the experiment appears to produce measurable contribution and placement signals.
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