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Re:Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work by antonzabirko on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:19PM (#23250646)
It's really not as you say in practice. Semantically yes it never becomes released, but eventually excellent work spreads naturally.

In the current internet setup it is hard to grow organically, but that's a result of this same mentality. It reinforces politics and showmanship, which is why those skills dictate the market and coincidentally the internet.

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Re:Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work by servercobra on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:32PM (#23250793)
But how does excellent work spread naturally? If I publish some truly wonderful language or package on GitHub, would anyone notice without me promoting it? Or if I find some surprising result from an experiment, write it up, put it on my blog that I don't promote, will anyone see it? And if so, how?
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