Develop taste along with talent. That’s how to gain visibility.
… I have gotten a steady stream of paid job offers ever since I was ~17.
This is because employers know what I’ve done + they know what I’m worth. They know that bc of the work I’ve published in the public domain… that nobody paid me to do.
(I never did college/Uni btw)
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1015472994301308928?s=21
If you want cool and interesting jobs that pay decently, you have to be a cool and interesting person that can demonstrably create value. How fucked up is it that our education systems don’t actually optimise for this – and in fact disincentivize this? The game is rigged.
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1015475474074488832?s=21
This, I believe. I come at it from a different angle: someone with college and two graduate degrees. It’s true for me, too.
Demonstrate value, be cool.
In a weird way I am not cool yet compared to my peers in this industry I am sufficiently barely cool enough to be interesting. Compared to the world, I am not cool at all.
My consistent vision has always been on the value side of that second tweet. It’s time to develop the cool and interesting side now. Or, unleash it. I have it in me. Everyone does. Even you.