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1. Create something other people will hopefully enjoy to use.
2. Have an opportunity to flex your skills.
3. Gain feedback from users who want you to improve (much more valuable than feedback from ego-driven team mates!)
4. Show others (users, the community, team mates and companies) how badass you are.
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I wholeheartedly agree. Very worrying times when mentally unstable people can start printing guns and bullets at home. Vice has a documentary on 3D guns if you haven't seen it already.