Cambridge defines the verb 'commit' as "to promise or give your loyalty, time, or money to a particular principle, person, or plan of action",
as well as "to express an opinion or to make a decision that you tell people about".
In the world of pastagang a lot of dialogue happens in different places. It can be in forms of words on the websites, or on other social channels
such as the Discord. But alternatively it can also be in more concrete forms. 'Let the jam do the talking' says exactly that.
Talking about actions can become stale quickly, and taking action through talking is not guaranteed. More often than not it leads to disagreements
and disagreements lead to passivity. So what if we are talking more through commits? What can we create, what problems can we solve?
As programmers we are very familiar with the word 'commit'.
Within the repository of 💖 Ravioli 💖
it has been clicked as of now 804 times by different programmers. That is a lot of committing.
For us it means something not as extreme as Cambridge defines. But it still means to take action,
and in Pastagang it also means to share this action with Pastagang.
Committing can sometimes be scary. What if someone undoes your work? What if others disagree with what you are committing to?
Talking can be a way to prevent conflict, it can also be a way to settle conflicts. But in the end it's not the talking that settles the conflict,
it's in finding a way to fit these different commitments together, to make something better in the whole. Let the jam do the talking!
authors note: * this is a pastagang post as food for thought, not general life advice *