Sunday, April 04, 2010

Surround yourself with smart people

Just watched this and something from the speech has specifically drawn my attention: 'If you want to learn surround yourself with smart people'.

As I work mostly from home, physically I cannot really do that. And I asked myself how am I going to do this ? Am I doomed not to learn anything since I have decided to work as a self employed geek ?

The answer is that, somehow, in a pretty altered form indeed (but not necessarily worse), I am already doing this for a long time now. Just look into my hardcore tech contact list on Twitter. They are the most brilliant technology guys I know. Of course there are others, but those are the ones I've 'surrounded' me with :-) And it so much pays off.

That's one of the many things Twitter enables, in a extremely subtle and surprisingly innovative way. And that's what I advise all my friends to do (at least in the first phase) with Twitter, because 'social' is such a fuzzy term for too many of us :-)

1 comment:

Mihai Campean said...

I agree this is some good piece of advice. My mother always told me to make myself friends that I can learn good things from and I try to follow that day by day.