Networking

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Long Range Career AdviceSlava Akhmechet · 3 min
A 10-to-20-year career loop: get in rooms with the most competent people who'll have you, work hard to be reliably useful, and watch for weird asymmetric opportunities.
How To Craft A Subject Line for Cold Emailing part 1Owen Garcia · 3 min
Generic subject lines like "Coffee Chat Request" get ignored; personalize the subject so a busy executive has a reason to open your cold email.
Getting a Tech Job Out of CollegeSlava Akhmechet · 4 min
Blunt advice for new grads: send hard-to-fake signals of competence, get good at Leetcode-style problems and programming tactics, and use your network to get noticed.

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How to Increase Your Luck Surface AreaJason Roberts Oct 7 2 min
Roberts argues that you can grow your own luck, since serendipity scales with how much you do what you care about and how many people you tell about it.
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- How to Create LuckShawn Wang
- ProductivitySam Altman
- It Is Your Responsibility to Follow UpAlexey Guzey
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A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inboxHenrik Karlsson Sep 25 14 min
Karlsson argues you should write niche, detailed posts for the person you were six months ago rather than a general audience, since precise writing works like a search query that finds your people online.
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- How To Craft A Subject Line for Cold Emailing part 1Owen Garcia
- How to think in writingHenrik Karlsson
- Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meetHenrik Karlsson
- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson
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Getting a Tech Job Out of CollegeSlava Akhmechet Sep 10 4 min
Blunt advice for new grads: send hard-to-fake signals of competence, get good at Leetcode-style problems and programming tactics, and use your network to get noticed.
Related
- Long Range Career AdviceSlava Akhmechet
- How to Market YourselfShawn Wang
- how to enter side doorsmaja
- Career DecisionsElad Gil
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Long Range Career AdviceSlava Akhmechet Sep 10 3 min
A 10-to-20-year career loop: get in rooms with the most competent people who'll have you, work hard to be reliably useful, and watch for weird asymmetric opportunities.
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- Getting a Tech Job Out of CollegeSlava Akhmechet
- On Starting a New JobSlava Akhmechet
- How to Create LuckShawn Wang
- Gradient Descent ValleysSlava Akhmechet
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How To Craft A Subject Line for Cold Emailing part 1Owen Garcia Aug 25 3 min
Generic subject lines like "Coffee Chat Request" get ignored; personalize the subject so a busy executive has a reason to open your cold email.
Related
- A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inboxHenrik Karlsson
- It Is Your Responsibility to Follow UpAlexey Guzey
- the world doesn’t move because you tell it tosignull
- How to Capture AttentionSlava Akhmechet
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It Is Your Responsibility to Follow UpAlexey Guzey Aug 12 5 min
Busy people miss most of their email, so if you want a reply, it's on you to follow up politely and repeatedly until you get one.
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- How to Increase Your Luck Surface AreaJason Roberts
- A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inboxHenrik Karlsson
- Getting a Tech Job Out of CollegeSlava Akhmechet
- How To Craft A Subject Line for Cold Emailing part 1Owen Garcia
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Repeatedly follow-up to show you careDerek Sivers Aug 12 1 min
A busy music publicist only listened to artists who followed up three times, which Sivers uses to argue that persistent follow-up is how you show you care.
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- There’s no speed limitDerek Sivers
- Create.Derek Sivers
- 6 things I wish I knew the day I started BerkleeDerek Sivers
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How to Create LuckShawn Wang Aug 3 7 min
Wang argues you can create luck by growing your luck surface area through doing more and telling more people, and maps the four kinds of luck from accidental to magnetic onto habits and strategy.
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- How to Market YourselfShawn Wang
- Long Range Career AdviceSlava Akhmechet
- How to Increase Your Luck Surface AreaJason Roberts
- If You Get the ChanceTed Lamade
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How to Market YourselfShawn Wang Aug 3 31 min
Wang argues developers can market themselves without becoming celebrities by building a consistent personal brand, claiming a domain to be the go-to person for, and showcasing their work both in public and at work.
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- How to Create LuckShawn Wang
- Getting a Tech Job Out of CollegeSlava Akhmechet
- how to enter side doorsmaja
- Career DecisionsElad Gil
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How to Network EffectivelyWill Eden Jul 31 7 min
A step-by-step guide to networking, starting with having a clear goal, on the premise that the people around you often limit what you can accomplish.
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- Repeatedly follow-up to show you careDerek Sivers
- Connecting with people more easilySasha Chapin
- It Is Your Responsibility to Follow UpAlexey Guzey
- Reminder: Empathize First!Divia Eden
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how to enter side doorsmaja Jul 30 14 min
Treating a job as a bundle of problems someone will pay to solve, this guide argues the front door of job boards is crowded, so reach people directly with specific proof or publish work that lets them find you.
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- Getting a Tech Job Out of CollegeSlava Akhmechet
- How to Market YourselfShawn Wang
- Career DecisionsElad Gil
- Long Range Career AdviceSlava Akhmechet
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Career DecisionsElad Gil Jul 13 6 min
Elad Gil's framework for choosing your next career step: which factors to overweight, starting with network, and how their importance shifts with your stage of life.
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- Getting a Tech Job Out of CollegeSlava Akhmechet
- How to Market YourselfShawn Wang
- how to enter side doorsmaja
- Long Range Career AdviceSlava Akhmechet
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