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perhaps an opportune moment to mention my personal biggest learning from Patio11's oeuvre (even bigger than the negotiations essay, which is more tactical and g
by swyx 2y ago
perhaps an opportune moment to mention my personal biggest learning from Patio11's oeuvre (even bigger than the negotiations essay, which is more tactical and gets less relevant the more context specific your career becomes). https://swyx.io/friendcatchers https://swyx.io/friendcatchers i think this is the thing that makes patio11 popular - even the negotiations essay is a friendcatcher. Patrick just has like 200 of them lying around at all times which makes for a massive luck surface area
> In the words of Patrick’s mom: "Patrick, you should learn to cook. Don’t learn to cook because you want to eat food - learn to cook because if you learn to cook you will have an excuse for the rest of your life to bring people over to your house."
> No one who knows how to cook will ever lack for friends.
- hiAndrewQuinn 2y agoFriendcatcher is an excellent name for it. I've found some surprisingly high-powered allies in a similar way, just by writing things other people tend to find useful over time. I'm still often surprised by the traction my `fzf` tutorial https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf gets, for example. Selects for a certain clade of excited future terminal junkies I get along fantastically with.