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Sell yourself, sell your work

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449 points ColinWright | 1 comments | 25 Mar 25 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Henchman21 ◴[26 Mar 25 00:25 UTC] No.43477570[source]▶
> For the world to benefit from your work, and therefore for you to benefit fully from your work, you have to make it known.

"Fully" seems to be doing a helluva lot of heavy lifting in this piece. Does anyone think that they mean anything other than "making money", as they quickly segue into talking about entrepreneurship and founding businesses?

I'm happy to concede that if you don't tell anyone about the stuff you do, no one will know. But I am not willing to concede that you only "fully" benefit from your work if you sell it. Nor am I willing to concede that work only has value if sold. I'm also not entirely certain the author is pushing those views. Still, something about this piece doesn't sit well with me.

Human endeavors have value beyond the monetary.

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1. milne-dev ◴[26 Mar 25 01:17 UTC] No.43477866[source]▶
The author isn't saying that selling is necessary only to make money. At the end of the article he says "But the word "sell" doesn't necessarily mean what you think it means", which then leads to the aside:

"you can either do it in such a fashion that people can indeed build on what you've done, or you can do it in such a fashion that the next person has to essentially duplicate again what you've done"