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be forced to do the work of duplicating knowledge, or lose it forever. ## Paying the Duality Cost I'll motivate this with a personal example. I run [the Coding Career Community](https://www.learninpublic.org/) in *two* places - [Circle.so](http://circle.so) for my async knowledge base (discrete), and Discord for my live chat

should remember that we can simply be our own customers too. Author's Note: I wrote a longer treatment of the benefits of, and ideas for, Side Projects in [The Coding Career Handbook](https://www.learninpublic.org/). I also commented in [the KeyCuts

turned into a serious, stacked-ranked framework for building mindshare. Here’s what I learned.* swyx has been writing publicly since 2018. His essays —[[L*earn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-

Public Engineering Career Ladder career-ladders hashtag-careers *A full version of this post with a "generic" career ladder is available in [The Coding Career Handbook](https://www.learninpublic.org/#learn-more)* "What will it take to get to the next level?" Of course this is a very open ended question, but it can be

Yourself Increasing Outlets to Increase Output sharding-yourself hashtag-creators,hashtag-writing,hashtag-learning in public As a writer, once you get past the basic mental

upcoming book](https://www.swyx.io/writing/i-m-writing-a-book-45a8/). **Q: Relevance of blogs in our career or benefits of blog writing?** The benefits of blogging are the same as the benefits of [Learning in Public](https://www.swyx.io/writing/learn-in-public/). By

on what happens AFTER consistency/quality - I have more thoughts on using consistency to get good at writing [in Chapter 18 of my Coding Careers book](https://www.learninpublic.org/). Every creator wrestles with the tradeoff between quality

(this is what I am doing to write this very blogpost), but when in doubt, [do not let get coding get in the way of your blogging](https://codingcareer.circle.so/c/learn-in-

Closure on React Hooks hooks hashtag-tech,hashtag-react,hashtag-learn in

people together for the [Writing Excuses Retreats](https://writingexcuses.com/tag/writing-excuses-retreat/). - I'd also been accumulating "How to Write" style notes for v2 of [my book](https://learninpublic.org/) ([subscribers only link](https://github.com/sw-yx/cracking-the-coding-career-private/issues/92)) for the past 2 years and

Idea Exploration bottom-up-ideas hashtag-reflections,hashtag-learninpublic,hashtag-react *Listen to [audio narrated

on the side to continue learning outside of work. After about 6 months of this I got a DM from Matt Biilmann, Netlify’s CEO! **What advice would you give people looking to join you?** Start Learning in Public. *what else did you expect me to say?* **How has

## Further Reading Linked posts I referenced: - https://www.swyx.io/create_luck - https://www.swyx.io/friendcatchers/ - https://www.learninpublic.org/ I was

to Obsidian as a Public Second Brain obsidian-brain hashtag-meta,hashtag-learn in

throw of Ben Thompson's other big claim to fame in Tech Strategy, [Aggregation Theory](https://stratechery.com/aggregation-theory/) (the Intro to Tech Strategy chapter in [my book](https://www.learninpublic.org/) is free if you want my take on it). Strategically, "Territory over Positioning" happens to be exactly the right call. In a

hashtag-reflections From [April to July 2020](https://www.swyx.io/writing/coding-career-launch) I made $45k writing and selling [the Coding Career Handbook](https://www.learninpublic.org/) and the related Community and Creator packages to over 1k individual developers, teams, and bootcamps. Before you get too

(it has been edited and updated since for the final book version), which was an early hit (netting me three [podcast](https://www.softwaresessions.com/episodes/learning-in-public/)

job aged 30 at AWS without a CS degree. He picked up coding with Free Code Camp and then followed that up with a coding bootcamp. He is the author of the [Coding Career Handbook](https://www.learninpublic.org/?a=63jn2&ref=nocsdegree.com) - a guide for pursuing a job in web development. Read on to get his top tips for getting a job in

consistently put money in the stock market (value weight) and dont look at the charts. there -is- a plunge protection team. - pay fair prices for real estate when long term rates are low. - [Learn in

because of our ability to work remotely and transferability of our core skillset. But our friends and family may not be so lucky. ## What Developers Can Do - **If you are about to quit your job to learn to code, don't.** This is a terrible environment to take this particular risk. [Learn for free from FreeCodeCamp,

this regard. The concept of [mimicry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimicry) in nature describes this process. At the beginning, poisonous snakes might evolve some distinctive markings. So predators learned to avoid snakes with those markings. Then, non-poisonous

a podcast**. Randall and I [ran a podcast](https://careerchats.transistor.fm/) that helped extend the reach of content we already worked on. - **Run a paid community**. My [middle tier](https://www.learninpublic.org/#community) is a high signal/low noise Discord + Circle community focused on tech careers and part time creation. Monthly calls

devs looking to go from Code Newbie to Senior Dev. ~~I'm putting up [100 copies for presale](https://gumroad.com/l/bAZJq/Presale) for 50% off!~~ You can now find the book on it's own site at [www.LearnInPublic.org](https://www.LearnInPublic.org/)! If you'd like behind-the-scenes update of the book writing process, you can follow [the

hashtag-reflections One of the talks in my Lindy Library (from the [Lindy effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect) which I discussed in [my book](https://learninpublic.org/)) is "Growing a Language", by Guy Steele: - [Youtube Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0) - [The full text

that you should [never name the first number](http://blog.interviewing.io/exactly-what-to-say-when-recruiters-ask-you-to-name-the-first-number/) (more thoughts collected in [my book](https://www.learninpublic.org/toc))... and your recruiter knows that too - So they happily name TWO numbers: - Offer A with X cash and Y options -

with far more info on the difference. To be clear, I don't claim any authority whatsoever on the topic - I'm just writing down my learning in public, and have since removed all mention of Observability

tweet 1418567795021950982 %} But it was also clear to me that this was important work — you can't get any "closer to the money" (a concept I discuss in [my Career Strategy chapter](https://www.learninpublic.org/toc)) than literally *working with money* on billing. Everyone says the single biggest lever on your business is pricing. If

**AWS is just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.** Today I'm joining to help AWS build for App Developers, and to grow the Amplify Community with people who **Learn AWS in

(9 min lightning talk) - [React NYC](https://youtu.be/Cxaf8E00GMM) (30min talk) - [The MongoDB Podcast](https://mongodb.libsyn.com/ep-93-swyx-learn-in-

All sources call it "individualized action" but I've renamed it "magnetic luck" to emphasize the end result rather than how you get there. I'm quite familiar with this as [the "Miner" gear of my Learning Gears](https://www.swyx.io/writing/learning-gears/#miner) terminology (since updated to 4 gears in [my book](https://learnin

is *hard* at best, and I suspect nontechnical topics are way harder than normal technical blogging, b/c it's so unclear what to include and there is no objectively correct advice (except for [Learn in

Market Yourself without Being a Celebrity marketing-yourself hashtag-advice,hashtag-marketing,hashtag-careers Author's Note: *This is a free chapter from [The Coding Career Handbook](https://www.learninpublic.org/). If you liked this, come check out the rest of the topics!* I've also given several interviews on this topic: - at

of 15-5 Updates the-importance-of-writing-weekly-updates We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding Career Community meetup](https://learninpublic.org/#community). I rarely get so excited about an idea I immediately know I need to start doing it, so I'm choosing to write it up

but updates the 2 year old course for the current Mobx 4 API. I would also like to thank my employer for allowing me to learn in

the Coding Career Handbook! launching-coding-career hashtag-advice Today I'm excited to announce that [the Coding Career Handbook](https://www.learninpublic.org/?from=DEV.to) is now live!  It is

as a professional software engineer. - 2018: The year I "went public". Dev.to's sponsorship of DevFestNYC pushed me to write [my first technical blogposts ever](https://www.swyx.io/medical-machine-learning-in-30-seconds-dh1). [React Suspense happened](https://www.swyx.io/a-walkthrough-of-that-react-suspense-demo--4j6a) and that got me

New Podcasts in 2020 fave-podcasts-2020 hashtag-reflections I have a lot to be thankful for this year, including [my new job](https://www.swyx.io/writing/hello-aws) and [my new book](https://www.learninpublic.org/), as well as meeting many new friends and excellent opportunities this year. But for today's post I wanted something light, so

drafts a day later to see if it still makes sense or sparks joy. - The ones that make it through your self filter can be shared with a peer review group or mastermind ([join mine here](https://www.learninpublic.org/#buy)), before final publication. This is how you build a system for quality, atop a baseline of consistency. Ephemerality,

guitar. When I’m home there should always be something playing on the speakers, no exceptions!) - **writer** (people like my [[blog](https://swyx.io/LIP)](https://swyx.io/LIP) and [[book](https://learninpublic.org/)](https://learninpublic.org/) and [[short

people log in and heart stuff, it'd be nice if they could chat. [Circle is the best platform for that](https://jayclouse.com/how-to-build-an-online-community/). Here's the one I maintain for Learning in Public:

Parcel 1.7.0 tags: react suspense, react, parcel, parceljs --- # DISCLAIMER I am just messing around with this on my own and have no affiliation with the React Team. I am just doing this to learn in

as a Service service-as-a-service hashtag-ideas ## TL;DR **Service as a Service** is an idea I coined in [my recent book](https://www.learninpublic.org/toc) to describe what software founders should do before they create a "Software as a Service" (SaaS) business. It is a nice

Landing Page Tips from Rob Hope 8-landing-page-tips-from-rob-hope-338l hashtag-reflections I submitted [my book's landing page](https://learninpublic.org/) for [Rob Hope's review](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1284487504670806018) and he obliged! Brutal feedback incoming. I

can be done to add polls, images and videos but I chose to skip that for my basic implementation. ## Tweet Body parsing The text parsing became the tricky part. Simple text like `@swyx on “learning in public” Have a listen: https://t.co/L4VF9a8ukZ

Q&A's for Bootcamp Students in 2020 8-q-a-s-for-pre-bootcamp-students-in-2020-1phh hashtag-reflections,hashtag-advice,hashtag-learn in

group", /r/reactjs was one of the few places I could post my stuff in public and do well regardless of being a nobody. Like thousands of others, I joined to post my stuff, and then stuck around to learn from others and discuss their stuff. /r/reactjs is a **wonderful** place to [Learn React

and [Orbit.Love](https://swyx.transistor.fm/episodes/weekend-drop-marketing-to-developers-learnin-in-

to establish thought leadership (ruling out [Tiago's](https://fortelabs.co/blog/basbpodcast/) or [Corey's](https://www.swipefiles.com/everything-is-marketing)) to try to sell you something. Purely [learning in public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/). I've

my talks discoverable to my readers and vice versa. The other thing that bothers me about my current setup is that it makes for ugly URLs. [My most popular essay ever](https://www.swyx.io/writing/learn-in-

the full list of 50 lessons on [the book's site](https://typescript-book.com/). Even if you think you already know TypeScript, here's likely *something* here that could probably know better. ## Learning TypeScript in Public One of the most unexpected outcomes of

Made by humans just like me. If I run into a problem, I can [search for help](https://www.swyx.io/writing/how-to-google-your-errors-2l6o/). I can [write it up](https://www.swyx.io/writing/learn-in-

grad](https://hackernoon.com/no-zero-days-my-path-from-code-newbie-to-full-stack-developer-in-12-months-214122a8948f). You're not reading the divinings of some thought leader here. I'm just some guy learning in public. 2. This API is EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AND SUBJECT TO

[introduction to Reactive Programming](https://gist.github.com/staltz/868e7e9bc2a7b8c1f754)_ ⚠️Note: this is a work in progress - I am not even a TypeScript expert, I am merely [Learning In Public](https://www.swyx.io/writing/learn-in-public/) and

[Temporal](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/ff8a4f6757286444fa20b43f6b98b205#reconstituting-the-monolith)) that I would have otherwise struggled to be hired at. 3. **Learn in

Annealing blogpost-annealing hashtag-reflections,hashtag-writing,hashtag-learninpublic Regular readers will notice that my posts often change rapidly soon after publication. This means they get *better over time*, as