51–60 of 89 posts
I am convinced that I have very much over performed in my life and career by writing and also not passing up opportunities of helping people.
While I have had a good career, I have worked with so many people who I think are much better than I am as far as technical skills. Sadly many of these super performers don’t do the extra work of self promotion.
If this only true if you publish with a particular niche, one that can get you hired somewhere. It effectively becomes more work.
I used the word ‘underserved’ for another reason. About 30 years ago I realized that I only was competing with myself and that everything I did should be in the service of other people or whatever company was paying me for my time. Framing everything as service to others takes away anxiety and fear of failure. Anyway that is how I see it.
...if you get it in front of the right people. I have tried to do this twice over the past ten years. The first time was in equity research. It was actually easier for me to start a business myself than get people hiring to just look at my work casually. And when it came up, almost always suspicion: why are you doing this? Is this legal? Actually showing interest was almost regarded as negative (in one of my last int…
Hope things are going alright for you now.
doing things * telling people = 0 if you have no people to tell, and is still practically 0 unless you happen to tell the right people.
It's very likely that "doing things and telling people" will never produce any results unless you're well positioned, either by circumstance, happenstance or on purpose.
I’ve been hesitating to publicize my project because there’s always something more I can add, or a bug to fix. I think things like: If I do a “Show HN” post, will I get too many users at the same time? Is there a better way to quietly get the first few customers and fix the issues that they uncover? I’m reading “The Mom Test” now to learn how to talk to potential users. Here’s what I’m working on: https://headlamptes…
Also, don't worry too much about perfection. It's actually better to launch something before it is perfect, since the hard part is not actually doing the project, but getting anyone to care. Better to get That step out of the way as fast as possible.
Devil's advocate: everyone preaching about increasing your luck stumbled into a bit of luck initially, which forever changed their path. If you don't get that initial lucky break you're wasting your time. doing things * telling people = 0 if you have no people to tell, and is still practically 0 unless you happen to tell the right people. It's very likely that "doing things and telling people" will never produce any…
You not only have to to stuff, and publish stuff, you have to tell everyone about it.
From my own experience, I've been streaming myself coding a lot recently, but the only time I get even low single digits tuning in is when I post a link somewhere.
So I guess just be prepared that you can write blogs, stream, post videos, publish software... and people don't take notice. There's a whole self-promotion aspect to it as well.
I don't think it's as easy as that. You not only have to to stuff, and publish stuff, you have to tell everyone about it. From my own experience, I've been streaming myself coding a lot recently, but the only time I get even low single digits tuning in is when I post a link somewhere. So I guess just be prepared that you can write blogs, stream, post videos, publish software... and people don't take notice. There's a…
Devil's advocate: everyone preaching about increasing your luck stumbled into a bit of luck initially, which forever changed their path. If you don't get that initial lucky break you're wasting your time. doing things * telling people = 0 if you have no people to tell, and is still practically 0 unless you happen to tell the right people. It's very likely that "doing things and telling people" will never produce any…
With the Internet, I'd argue that it isn't _that_ hard to find the right people to tell to.