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Gian Segato
giansegato.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2020
Gian Segato writes essays on startups, education, AI products, and career choices, plus some personal engineering projects.
What HN saysOne commenter credits his website with bringing investors, a job offer, and a visa sponsorship; another links his effortful-learning piece against an opposing article.
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giansegato · 2024-09-26
higher ROI than anything else I've ever done for my career, by a long shot
with my website [1] I found investors, I was contacted by a highly sought after silicon valley startup, moved to the US and got my visa sponsored, I even found friends here to get my network going and a professional network much more significant than anything I could ever have on linkedin
the only downside is that writing on your blog takes a long time to become clearly worth it (read: years), so most people don't stick to it and never find out -- do it!
[1] https://giansegato.com/essays
gniv · 2023-12-04
I still have a tab open with an old article [1] that seems to argue the opposite: that learning must be effortful to happen. I didn't read the book reviewed here so I don't know if there really is a conflict between the two approaches. (I suspect the "you can make it easy" part is just marketing.)
[1] https://giansegato.com/essays/edutainment-is-not-learning (discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36580837)