then create the technology, the open source projects, the presenta7ons set yourself as a goal to create a very cool product or demo and then figure out the tech I created socket.io because I was working on enabling real7me classroom collabora7on, so students could work on documents, it was a "side effect” @rauchg
that by just wri7ng code and experimen7ng, sharing your ideas with others through ar7cles. If what you create is useful enough, share your ideas through open-source projects. Even contribu7ng to projects by other people is great because you're helping improve something exis7ng by making it beDer and hopefully learning in the process. Speaking at events is also a fantas7c way to force yourself to get beDer acquainted with a subject. All of those things help a lot.”