You grow your audience when you give them content without asking for anything in
Jack Miller
Just now·8 min read
Do all the things you really want to do; do them NOW. Do not wait for some opportune time and do not let work stop you from living life. Find the right balance. Go on, dip your feet now.
Sometimes, you won’t be able to hold onto it. That’s fine. Every time you approach a low point with curiosity instead of self-judgment, you’re teaching your brain how to respond more positively in times of stress — a skill we all still need for the foreseeable future.
“Because all the things I want to change in my life, I keep waiting for them to change. But I don’t have control of those things. The only thing I have control over is myself. So, if I want anything to change, I have to be the one to do it.”
I had arrived on this trip with a lot of anger. I was 19 years old, feeling all the things you feel when you’re 19. I felt like my parents didn’t understand me. I felt like everything I did was wrong. I felt like no matter how hard I tried, I would never be the person they wanted me to be. I felt lost and didn’t know what I wanted to be in life. I enjoyed music. I enjoyed writing. But other than that, I didn’t enjoy much else. Most days, I just felt stuck.
Sometimes, you won’t be able to hold onto it. That’s fine. Every time you approach a low point with curiosity instead of self-judgment, you’re teaching your brain how to respond more positively in times of stress — a skill we all still need for the foreseeable future.Twitter allows you to easily reach an audience outside your followers, but it isn’t intuitive to master and you’re handcuffed by the number of characters in each tweet, which can be a good thing.Sometimes that’s true. So much power, control, and wealth consolidated in so few. But that’s never the whole story. This week’s DeepMind breakthrough is a reminder that the most cutting-edge technology, even those from companies that we no longer fully trust (DeepMind is owned by Alphabet, which owns Google), can alter our lives in demonstrably positive ways.
Modern vendor APIs address some, but not all, of these shortcomings. For example, Arista’s EOS provides eAPI, a RESTful service using JSON payloads. Similarly, Juniper has its Junos XML API, utilizing NETCONF and XML. In both cases the data remains only semi-structured, both vendors format it differently, and collectors must actively poll.
“Because all the things I want to change in my life, I keep waiting for them to change. But I don’t have control of those things. The only thing I have control over is myself. So, if I want anything to change, I have to be the one to do it.”
Finally, I had a moment to hear those thoughts — the ones that played the victim’s song. With 3 entire days to myself, that song became clearer and clearer, to the point where the words no longer seemed like my own.Instagram’s text section of a photo is an unusual place to write blog posts and it works, but you have to deal with the bikini bum influencer movement and your potential to star on a top model reality tv show — or not, like me.
The next level is Sean Kernan. He grows his audience not by trying hard to be viral but by being weird. He writes about some of the weirdest topics you have ever heard of. People go wild for his version of weird because it reminds readers of their own weird.
Traditional network management tools, namely SNMP and CLI screen-scraping, have been used for decades for this purpose, and there are numerous software packages, protocols, and libraries to choose from. As is common with mature technologies, any number of shortcomings have revealed themselves. The data itself is largely unstructured, untyped, and vendor-proprietary, and its format often changes between even minor software releases. The mechanisms by which the data is retrieved may not be inherently reliable (in the case of SNMP’s UDP transport) and always require active polling by the collector — which, for time series data, must be driven by a strict clock. Other shortcomings include a lack of source timestamps, support for multiple connections, and general scalability challenges.Kay Bolden’s writing has heaps of personality. It helps her grow her audience of loyal readers. Her writing is vastly different from anything else I’ve read because it’s loaded with personality.
Cade Metz’ New York Times piece details how the neural network based DeepMind was used to find a solution to a very difficult biochemistry problem: How to identify protein folds and use that information to figure out what the protein might do and how it could interact with other proteins and even, say, viruses.
The “Techlash” that started last year and flowed steadily through 2020, paints technology and the tech giants that run the world as dark monoliths, casting broad and sometimes sinister shadows across our lives.
It was the afternoon, and for miles all I could see were trees and trees. There were no sounds other than the crackling of leaves under my shoes when I would pace my space back and forth. Every once in a while, I would test the silence and let out a scream, wanting to see how long it would echo.
It’s a stunning piece of work because, as AI’s are wont to do, DeepMind’s “AlphaFold” figured out how to identify a protein’s shape in not years, months, or even weeks, but in under an hour.
You grow an audience by being known for a few topics. A limited number of topics allows you to dedicate your time as a writer to going deep into these subjects. Depth creates mastery in a specific topic. You will grow an audience as a writer when you become a master rather than a dabbler.
Some platforms allow you to publish duplicate content like LinkedIn. Do it. Nobody will remember what you wrote six months ago. If it was good six months ago, then it can be published again.
