The first time in the nuggets on the article, not typesetting, the word is a little dense, but believe me, read it must be useful to you, there is a big use!!
When 996 becomes the norm, when inroll becomes more and more severe, when anxiety becomes a habit, how do we break through?
In particular, we as “code farmers” to move bricks, doing manual labor, eating youth rice, faced with “35 years old unemployment” midlife crisis, should consider, our future where to go!
It was the worst of times, but it was also the best of times.
The Times give us anxiety, in fact, also give us the antidote.
The cure for developers is personal influence!
Why is building personal influence the “antidote” for developers?
What’s worth the most in this Internet age? Influence!
A more accurate answer is human attention.
Why is Tiktok valued at more than $75 billion? One reason is that it has captured the attention of hundreds of millions of people with video. Why li Jiaqi Wei a live sales can be 100 million? Because they attract the attention of a large number of consumers, which can be translated into purchasing power. Why can wu make two or three billion dollars? Because he is the entertainment industry top stream, and the top flow means the top influence, attracting a huge number of people’s attention. All he has to do is stand over there, grab a toilet brush, say it works, it spreads, and the people who make the toilet brush, they’re lining up to give him a big endorsement. (Of course, not anymore, maybe)
So, when a person gets noticed by a lot of people and makes an impact, that person can influence a lot of people. People trust him and are willing to buy his products or services.
So what does this have to do with developers?
When you work for a company, produce products and services, and when the company sells, you get paid every penny and can be fired at any time, of course you’re anxious.
And if you turn yourself into a company, you can provide products or services, you can get their own value to the market to exchange, there is no middleman to earn the difference. Isn’t that beautiful?
Of course, this does not mean that you must start a business, or you must be free of wealth, but even one more side business, more passive income, make life more possible, I think, it can greatly relieve your anxiety.
How can you make money if you build influence?
1. Selling courses. Don’t be now all kinds of selling classes cut leek behavior brainwash, feel very low. Let me show you a picture.
This is a class I bought before (in order to prevent being said advertising, specially coded), is a programmer recorded the class, you can take out your phone, calculate how much money he sold? Anyway, I figured it out at that time and surprised me!
2. Take ads. You can work with some colleges, you can advertise, you can split. Many articles you see on Zhihu follow this routine.
3. Write a column. This is also a common way of realization in many areas of knowledge. Find a niche, write your own column, solve a problem you can solve, and someone will pay for it. For example, if you have been to a large factory, you can tell people how to get there, what skills you need, how to acquire those skills, what to do in an interview, how to change your resume. One-stop service, as long as the quality is good, someone will pay.
4. Publish books and collect royalties. Of course, more applicable to Daniel.
Of course, the way can be diverse, channels can be diverse, but as long as the bet in one, the output of a small burst, open for three years to eat no problem.
And, more importantly, building influence is a life of compound interest. It is possible to start a business, find a partner in a promising startup company, be poached by a big factory to be an executive, and so on, as long as you accumulate to that height.
What are some ways developers can build personal influence?
There are two ways to build personal influence: text and video.
Words: write a book. Daniel may consider. Writing an article. We developers can build our impact by Posting to the development community. For example, Nuggets, SCDN, Zhihu, public account and so on.
Video: Douyin, B station, video number, etc.
With text or video, pick something you’re good at, but you’re not good at trying to emulate others. Then, choose a platform, go deep, continue to produce good content, accumulate fans, become a big V.
How do you do that?
Step 1: Choose a method. Is it text or video? Step 2: Choose a platform. From the above channels, pick a platform and figure out the platform’s gameplay, tonality, monetisation, etc. Step 3: Keep producing good stuff.
Content production, there are two types, novice and Daniel:
Novices: a lot of novices look, it is to write something, it is to shoot a video, it is to frighten good content, in fact very simple.
Do development, there is a natural content, low cost, wide dissemination, large demand, and new people especially easy to get started, that is to learn notes! For example, how to configure JDK, how to install mysql, where to download a good installation package, use the process encountered what problems, how to solve, today learned a Python what usage, how to have a few simple examples to explain, and so on.
Don’t look simple, huge demand, you can look at the major development websites, whether video or article, its transmission, huge.
All kinds of development languages have “a book”, called “from getting started to Giving up”, so, you see, want to get started people absolutely many, and they need, are these simple and understandable content.
Daniel: With Daniel’s content, you can write a high-quality project or development process. Of course, it’s also recommended to start simple. After all, there’s a difference between programming ability and writing ability. When your writing ability is not enough to support and demonstrate your superb programming skills, and the thought of writing a perfect technical article, unavoidable pressure, difficult to adhere to.
The final step: Keep updating and improving. Building personal influence is a long-term process that requires each stranger to get to know you and get to know you. It takes time.
Before she became famous, She used several years to shoot tens of thousands of video materials, so everything is accumulated.
At the same time, in this process, we need to constantly improve our content and form, so as to make it more responsive to the needs of the public and more explosive.
This article is I spent 4 hours, sorting out about our developers, how to develop some thinking and summary, hope to help you, also hope Daniel to add and comments. If you have any questions, please leave a comment.