Increasing Your Luck Surface Area and Yes, the Big Dogs Read Hacker News(plus.google.com)
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Increasing Your Luck Surface Area and Yes, the Big Dogs Read Hacker News
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Am I missing something or was the linked post basically about someone of fame adding the author to its G+ circle? Very interesting.
The idea of 'luck surface area' is that by making an effort or putting something out there can increase your odds of having a chance encounter with a positive benefit to yourself.
Jason is giving an example about how a blog post he wrote ended up leading to him making a connection with a high-powered financial trader. It is pretty cool to think that you can write 500 words, hit the front page of HN, and suddenly have the attention of someone whom you could never get an audience with normally.
Jason is giving an example about how a blog post he wrote ended up leading to him making a connection with a high-powered financial trader. It is pretty cool to think that you can write 500 words, hit the front page of HN, and suddenly have the attention of someone whom you could never get an audience with normally.
"One of benefits of publishing something on the web is that if it's the right kind of post and if it catches some wind, it can greatly increase your luck surface area."
Nice opening sentence, but the article doesn't really hook you, as I got three paragraphs in, and didn't understand where this 'luck surface area' was going. I got the sense it was just some naval-gazing discussion of getting blog posts to appear on Hacker News, so I just stopped reading.
Nice opening sentence, but the article doesn't really hook you, as I got three paragraphs in, and didn't understand where this 'luck surface area' was going. I got the sense it was just some naval-gazing discussion of getting blog posts to appear on Hacker News, so I just stopped reading.
The article is short on substance, but I really like the concept of the luck surface area. The author does appear to be the coiner of the term (top hit on Google: http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf...).
I read it twice because I thought I missed something. Nope.
Even though the article covers a lot of other things, I very much agree with the headline.
I am a newcomer to Hacker News, but after spending just short two weeks immersing myself into the community I only wish I have committed HN to my daily routine earlier.
There is definitely lots of benefits to posting your submissions and trying to hit front page to promote yourself and get business for your company... But merely following discussions on the multitude of technical and business problems can really help you find the solutions you have not thought about...
In just two weeks here, I've already made some contacts from the site and incorporated some learnings into our product.
Definitely want to thank the entire community.
I am a newcomer to Hacker News, but after spending just short two weeks immersing myself into the community I only wish I have committed HN to my daily routine earlier.
There is definitely lots of benefits to posting your submissions and trying to hit front page to promote yourself and get business for your company... But merely following discussions on the multitude of technical and business problems can really help you find the solutions you have not thought about...
In just two weeks here, I've already made some contacts from the site and incorporated some learnings into our product.
Definitely want to thank the entire community.
Jason, this is too meta. I clicked this because I knew you wrote it based on the title and thought it would be worth my time to read a well-thought content-filled Jason Roberts article. Imagine my suprise when it was a meta-article about another article you wrote and someone adding you on G+. Come on man.
Fair enough. I'll try to do a little better next time. But in all fairness it was just an anecdotal G+ post.
If anyone is interested in more about the Luck Surface Area concept, I believe it was first mentioned on Jason's podcast TechZing.
Ep 59: http://techzinglive.com/page/295/techzing-59-jasonism at the 65minute mark
Ep 59: http://techzinglive.com/page/295/techzing-59-jasonism at the 65minute mark
HN is the new TED
I presume he's using some sort of automated marketing tool to follow lots of people who will then follow him back, the sly dog.
Thinking about it it probably means that those social media influence ranking tools give me quite a lot of points. I love how ePenis is now a real, measurable value.