🌐on being internet-native

most of what i know, i learned from strangers on the internet. a thread about state machines. a blog post from 2011 about debugging memory leaks. a ten-minute youtube video by a person who will never know i exist. i owe them more than i owe most of my formal education.

the internet is the best library ever built

and yet most people i know use it like a television. the shift — the life-changing shift — is when you start treating it like a library you can contribute to. write the blog post. publish the repo. make the half-finished youtube video.

be searchable

the single most underrated career move is being easy to find. a public github. a handle you actually post on. a personal site — even a bad one — that shows up when someone types your name. you cannot get lucky if the internet can't see you.

distribution is the quiet half

i've started taking my own distribution seriously. instagram reels for what i'm building and what i'm running, twitter for the raw thoughts. none of it is a "personal brand." it's just paying attention to how my work reaches the world.