Actually, this applies to any sort of endeavor which brushes up against professions. Case in point: open source. Over the past year, there have been a few arti

Actually, this applies to any sort of endeavor which brushes up against professions. Case in point: open source. Over the past year, there have been a few articles exhorting the need to put considerable amounts of time marketing your open source project. Remember, it's not enough to release your code with decent docs, no, you have to buy a domain, put together a flat-themed bootstrap teaser page, make grandiose claims, blog regularly about it, set up a Twitter account, and so on. Why didn't we feel the need to do all of this the decade before? Oh, right: we weren't all ubiquitously self-promoting to each other via social. Worker harder, peon! Prove your worth to the world, which might reward you with more influence that you can eventually exchange for a job at $MEGACORP! Then you'll have made it! Articles: 1. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/open-source-marketing-with-velocityjs/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/open-source-marketing-with... 2. http://zachholman.com/posts/open-source-marketing/ http://zachholman.com/posts/open-source-marketing/