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In my experience, great execution (of mundane things in my case) can lead to others noticing you, which you can then use to create connections. Still anecdotal

In my experience, great execution (of mundane things in my case) can lead to others noticing you, which you can then use to create connections. Still anecdotal: but ideas did not matter in experience; if anything, my ideas made me look silly to those connections (but as long as I continued making great executions, it didn't matter).

malux85 11mo ago
Yeah, the truth is that you need all of these things to be “good enough” The idea has to be good enough, the execution has to be good enough and then the connections will come, The idea that the system is rigged against someone personally is just them protecting their ego - it’s much easier pill to swallow that your failures are because “the whole system is rigged against you” than to accept the ideas and execution were simply not good enough. And of course luck plays an element too, I’m lucky I haven’t had cancer yet, for example, there is an indisputable element of luck to life too, though luck surface area can be increased by failure resilience and brute force trying. I don’t think the system is rigged, it’s just a way for failures to protect their ego, but as soon as the get over that and stop making excuses, they can learn, grow and adapt, and then success will come to them.
wslh 11mo ago
> In my experience, great execution (of mundane things in my case) can lead to others noticing you, which you can then use to create connections. Following the OP's point, nothing beats having the right and close WhatsApp contacts. Everyone else has to spend months or years building the network for traction to reach those same direct connections. Everybody knows[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Knows_(Leonard_Cohen_song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Knows_(Leonard_Cohen...

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In my experience, great execution (of mundane things in my case) can lead to others noticing you, which you can then use to create connections. Still anecdotal

by rationalist 11mo ago

malux85 11mo ago
Yeah, the truth is that you need all of these things to be “good enough” The idea has to be good enough, the execution has to be good enough and then the connections will come, The idea that the system is rigged against someone personally is just them protecting their ego - it’s much easier pill to swallow that your failures are because “the whole system is rigged against you” than to accept the ideas and execution were simply not good enough. And of course luck plays an element too, I’m lucky I haven’t had cancer yet, for example, there is an indisputable element of luck to life too, though luck surface area can be increased by failure resilience and brute force trying. I don’t think the system is rigged, it’s just a way for failures to protect their ego, but as soon as the get over that and stop making excuses, they can learn, grow and adapt, and then success will come to them.
wslh 11mo ago
> In my experience, great execution (of mundane things in my case) can lead to others noticing you, which you can then use to create connections. Following the OP's point, nothing beats having the right and close WhatsApp contacts. Everyone else has to spend months or years building the network for traction to reach those same direct connections. Everybody knows[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Knows_(Leonard_Cohen_song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Knows_(Leonard_Cohen...