2 builders who never spoke to each other

Publish your thinking so the help comes to you

Write your intentions and your reasoning in public before you have a plan, so the people who could help know where to find you. It inverts the usual networking direction: rather than hunting for introductions, you make yourself findable to whoever is already looking for someone who thinks about this.

The method

1. 01

   Publish essays and put your thinking in public so like-minded people find you, instead of counting on a degree programme or a networking event to introduce you to anyone.

2. 02

   Write your intentions down in public before you have a plan for them, so that the people who could help you know to come to you.

What it returned

• $1M

  He published five deliberately vague long-term goals, including starting a SaaS business past $1M ARR, in order to be visibly on the hook for them.

• Six months of writing publicly produced more meaningful connections than all his earlier years inside the academic system.

Sources

• Manifest Destiny | Corey HainesCorey Haines · corey.co · 2021-08-03
• 🧠 What I really learned at university – Jakob GreenfeldJakob Greenfeld · jakobgreenfeld.com · 🧠 What I really learned at university · 2021-01-10