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If I reflect over my life, what has worked is being open and showing passion at every opportunity when meeting people. Most will respond as you’ve described, but with enough rolls of the dice you’re more likely to have a lucky hit. It can be a little exhausting to miss so many times, but I think there was no particularly successful strategy beyond that.
extracurricular activities. people who half-read books just to look impressive (to use your example) don't join extracurricular activities unless there is a tangible benefit. your own passion should let you naturally find those groups and join them because you would anyways, and you'll find others do the same.
Ha, your background is similar to mine and wow, I'm amazed you have already found HN in your senior year. That's a good sign. One thing that I've seen help personally and for others is, publishing your interests and thinking more. Being online, on the internet, is one of the best forms of leverage of recent times. It's best to silo/categorise what subjects you'd like published (niche), start with one and continue ont…
I have text notes full of half-baked ideas that are either too tiny/baseless to turn into comprehensible writing or they're too abstract/general to put into meaningful, concrete words. Any tips on getting your writing out there/writing in general? Thank you for the advice nonetheless.
[0]: https://nicheless.blog/post/async-vs-parallel-processing
Make stuff you think is cool, share it online, and like-minded people will contact you! You can also get involved in smaller communities, like those surrounding new languages or libraries. Since they are not yet big, they tend to have very passionate people involved. At uni, get involved in research.
Keep pursuing your passion. It's what will attract other passionate people to you.
My advice: work towards that passion and it will attract others. Just be ready to meet some very very talented people and see them as a collaborator not a competitor. When you collaborate with other passionate people (everyone contributes what they're best at) it will attract even more talented people, because then people will know you're both passionate and easy to work with.
Lastly: Never be afraid to reach out to people, I couldn't find anyone who was as crazy about design as this one legendary guy who I looked up to like he was jesus. I ended up writing him an email and he invited me to have coffee at his house, something that never would have happened if I hadn't worked up the courage to reach out.
Ha, your background is similar to mine and wow, I'm amazed you have already found HN in your senior year. That's a good sign. One thing that I've seen help personally and for others is, publishing your interests and thinking more. Being online, on the internet, is one of the best forms of leverage of recent times. It's best to silo/categorise what subjects you'd like published (niche), start with one and continue ont…
I did want to write tiny pieces once in a while to have a nice record of random stuff I get up to, but there was a post from a few days ago that about how much more difficult it is to get your writing out there that summed up my own problems pretty well. I saw Nicheless on HN a few months ago and it seems like a nice place for doing what you said, and I do have a post on there[0], but the thing I struggle with most i…
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I did want to write tiny pieces once in a while to have a nice record of random stuff I get up to, but there was a post from a few days ago that about how much more difficult it is to get your writing out there that summed up my own problems pretty well. I saw Nicheless on HN a few months ago and it seems like a nice place for doing what you said, and I do have a post on there[0], but the thing I struggle with most i…
There you go! That's a good start, believe it or not the initial step is hardest, from here on out all you have to do is consistently share and not care about the outcome. First time of hearing of nicheless, looks cool! One thing I forgot to add is you should have one main platform (website) that can serve as the central link to all your notes. Hell even a public notion page with a list of links and titles of your wr…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There you go! That's a good start, believe it or not the initial step is hardest, from here on out all you have to do is consistently share and not care about the outcome. First time of hearing of nicheless, looks cool! One thing I forgot to add is you should have one main platform (website) that can serve as the central link to all your notes. Hell even a public notion page with a list of links and titles of your wr…
Had to rummage through my bookmarks but this may help [1] [1]: https://guzey.com/personal/why-have-a-blog/