Better 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, Y

Better 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.