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Making (software) stuff seems easy. I do post about it on social media, but honestly it gets 0 traction since I have almost no audience. > If you you don't hav
by rexf 5y ago
Making (software) stuff seems easy. I do post about it on social media, but honestly it gets 0 traction since I have almost no audience.
> If you you don't have any marketable skills, learn some.
This seems like "rest of the owl" where it leaves out a ton of critical steps. Become good at marketing is a lucrative career if you are good at it. So excuse me for being jaded when "learn marketing" seems as helpful to me as "sell profitable services". Sure, but how?
The post recommends Khan Academy, Wikipedia, and Code Academy. Only Wikipedia has info on marketing, but reading it is not the same as learning how to do marketing.
- nefitty 5y agoThe filter is the skill of self-directed learning. It is a meta skill that can be built, which then increase opportunities dramatically. When I see the jib "they skipped a bunch of steps", it tells me that the person who received the advice needs to work on creating their personal learning system. Ideally, you feed your system a topic or idea, and it walks you through the exploration and work of understanding and applying that knowledge. It's not necessarily a piece of software. It can be a checklist, a journal, doodling on whitebords, blogging, whatever. Ultimately, all human knowledge is accessible through language. Whether that is true or not, if you act from that frame, there's nothing you can't learn with the right support and systems in place.