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This. I think instead of spending your time online being a blowhard on twitter or your blog or wherever, you should be making things. Github, twitter, a blog, w
by zecho 15y ago
This. I think instead of spending your time online being a blowhard on twitter or your blog or wherever, you should be making things. Github, twitter, a blog, whatever should just be artifacts created as a by-product of making things.
The ideal employer who doesn't want resumes should be able to tell the difference between these two things.
- dpritchett 15y agoBetter still to spend most of your time making amazing things and then just enough time promoting them so as to generate a bit of notoriety. Jeremy Ashkenas, Yehuda Katz, and Zed Shaw each build great things and give them away to the community. They also blog about these great things and they show up here on Hacker News to encourage discussion of their work.