This is unfair to the people who are good at business/sales, but it's also unfair to the rest of us, because it encourages a learned helplessness that disguises itself as righteousness.
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Helping create the structures for your community of interest locally exposes you to a lot of knock-on benefits from it. My friend
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The entire plan for the first version of that was "HN is a thing. People we would enjoy hanging out with in Tokyo read it. Let's tell them to meet us at a business which will rent us a room for a few hours." And then they did it monthly for 5+ years.
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Helping people and community building are nice tactics in that they scale with your success. They're easy to get started with so it is virtually never too early. Some of the outsized payoffs happen years later, when your scale/needs/etc could really use them.
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As an event organizer, getting speakers is my biggest challenge. Landing a talk at a conference with a CFP might be challenging, but if it’s a monthly meetup style event, talk to the organizer, and I can almost guarantee they’ll be delighted to have you present.
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Getting a technical talk slot at a non-tech event would be ideal for that goal. A challenge for foreigners in a country where they don't speak the lingo so well...
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