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Who is the most famous hacker of all time?

If you want to make a name for yourself as a leading thinker in the tech community, should you spend time contributing to Hacker News, your own blog, or Quora?

  • Note that I realize one deal way is to build the next great tech company or possible invest in the next great tech company. So to clarify: what I was aiming for here was, if you only had x hours a week to contribute to some online forum for information sharing (here I call out Quora, Hacker News and your own blog), which would be the best forum for establishing yourself as a leading thinker in the tech community?

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    None of the above.  You should build the next Google or Microsoft. If you have enough money, no matter how wrong you are about your predictions for the future, people will listen and believe you.  Bill Gates has more twitter followers than you and its not because of his tweets. Who is more visionary, Bill Gates or Alan Kay?  Does anyone know who Alan Kay is?  Is Alan Kay on twitter?  Does he have a blog? If you do not want to build a billion dollar empire, the next best alternative is to release a killer twitter client.  That has worked for some people.  Releasing another web-framework and building a web-framework cult also seems to be a popular strategy recently. The worst way to become a visionary thinker is to make actual advances.

Brandon Smietana at Quora Visit the source

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Go out, meet people face-to-face, and talk to them about their own interests and problems.   That goes a lot farther than anything on a website. (OK, fine, it's also good to have your thoughts somewhere in writing.  Which option is best depends on what you are best at - good writers should invest time in their own blog, good curators should invest time in Twitter.  Personally, despite reading them regularly, I don't "know" (i.e. "oh, so-and-so, she's writes really smart stuff") people on Hacker News or Quora the same way I do with Twitter, so that doesn't seem like the best investment.)

Cindy Alvarez

let's be realistic in saying that most people reading this will not be the next Bill Gates just by the rule of numbers. (If everyone was a millionaire who would clean shit up?) That being said you can certainly hedge your bets as an expert in a particular field. I've hired consultants based on their activity on blogs and online tech "magazines". If you can establish yourself as an expert in particular area you're the person people gravitate towards for answers. I would say the blog is still the most powerful tool as it is a complete body of your thoughts and work. Followed by authoring a book, supplemented with relavent twitter posts. The others are still too new and fluctuating to provide the ability to stand out from the masses.

Jim Plush

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