Publish Your Work, Change Your Life
summary
Claim is concrete: publishing your work increases your luck demonstrated by a sequence of pieces—3,000‑word blog post on efficient pagination, a sidecar open source package, short videos and tweet threads—that hit top of Hacker News, drove the most trafficked blog post, and produced a DM that leads to a job. Work actually uses GitHub, Twitter/BlueSky, conference videos and meetups. Results include surprise adoption, conference invites, layoffs followed by resilience, and repeated flops that still precede useful opportunities.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 2:06The hypothesis of luck
- 4:15Following curiosity
- 8:00Developing expertise
- 10:30Optimizing for opportunity
- 12:58Finding your voice
- 15:33Overcoming the fear of sharing
- 20:30The journey from tweet to career
- 24:44Facing failure and reality
- 27:42Conclusion and call to action
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