Outlier Developer is a new site created by Cory House for developers aspiring to do more with their careers. There is also a new course called “Becoming an Outlier: Reprogramming the developer mind”, which at the time of writing, is the 2nd most popular course on Pluralsight.
My latest post The Road From Nobody To Half A Somebody is about raising your profile. I have some supplementary material here that goes into more details than I could cover on outlier developer.
Nine Strategies for becoming famous in the tech industry
| Strategy | Examples | Pros | Cons |
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Satya Nadella, Tim Cook, Larry Ellison |
You get to make a dent in the universe | Dream on! In reality only a handful of people in the world can make it |
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Anders Hejlsberg (C#), James Gosling (Java), Guido van Rossum (Python) |
Inspire many thousands of developers to program in a new and improved way | Difficult to program any new language, especially a good one |
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Avery Wang (Shazam) | Excitement, adventure and wealth for the successful | There’s about a 99% chance of your startup going bankrupt |
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Jon Skeet | Shows the world how knowledgeable you are | Unless you already have a good reputation, climbing all the way to the top will be very tough |
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Jesse Stay, Scott Hanselman |
Get to fly around the world and share your passions with thousands of like- minded people | All of those really long hours are going to catch up with you one day |
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John Resig, Ryan Lienhart Dahl |
Open source projects hone your development skills | For every JQuery or NodeJS in GitHub there are a hundred other projects that the author has put blood, sweat and tears into but sadly almost nobody cares about |
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Robert Martin, Steve McConnell |
Success will earn you respect from other authors, developers and bloggers | Even if it’s good, no guarantee it will sell well. It could cost you more than you make back. Tech changes rapidly so your book may date quickly |
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Jeff Atwood, Scott Allen, |
You get to have your say on anything you’re interested in writing about | Blogs are ten a penny. Standing out from the crowd is not easy. |
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Joe Ingeno | Watch your followers grow every day. A potential 645 million out there | Your tweets lack visibility after a day or so unless you’re getting many retweets |
The first strategies are considerably more difficult to achieve, than the latter ones.
Additional Reading
http://www.pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/career-reboot-for-developer-mind
The Road From Nobody To Half A Somebody Part 2
The Road From Nobody To Half A Somebody Part 3
Zombie Code Kill 