Marketing yourself & your products by learning in public w/ Shawn Wang
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English - July 07, 2020 10:00 - 35 minutes - 39.9 MBTechnology Business Careers software development soft skills career advice Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: The right & wrong ways to pitch ideas at work w/ Jason Swett
Next Episode: Positioning yourself as a strategist w/ Austin L. Church
Shawn Wang / https://www.swyx.io/ / @swyx
Key Takeaways :
Take two weeks, put something out there, and see how making your first dollar online changes your life - 2:00
Shawn explains how he went from idea to pre-selling the book. - 2:45
Shawn talks about open sourcing his knowledge with his launch cheat sheet - 6:00
Shawn made it to #5 on Hacker News, before his post was removed due to HN's "unwritten rules" - 8:15
How can developers get started marketing? 12:45
"It's not so much about learning '1 weird trick' as it is showing up and putting in the work consistently." - 13:45
You're going to suck at first, but everyone does, so be okay with that." - 14:30
The second blog post I read on your site is the most important one - 17:40
How to get feedback from people you admire, and go from fan to friend: 18:15
How learning in public helped Shawn land a job at Amazon - 22:15
Curate multiple sources, and look for the differences - 28:30
Special guest commentary from my dog ShortStop - 31:00
Launching a book can be a test run for bigger independent projects - 31:30
Links:
Lessons and Regrets from My $25000 Launch
How to Market Yourself without being a Celebrity
Shawn's Launch Cheatsheet
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life Might Just Help You Live a More Fulfilling Life
Tiago Forte's Build a Second Brain course
Microconf 2015 Recap Page (and 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019)
95%-ile isn't that good
The Personal MBA