What the hell is this guy doing as a coder - he should be running a media empire by now!
Everything he reported doing in high school is fantastic grassroots marketing and PR, and the content he created was great even back then. The teacher review is one of the best ideas, ever. He got everything down - content, distribution - even on slips of paper - the works.
This is exactly what you read in a media billionaire's bio: expelled from a prestigious high school for running an underground school newspaper, which printed students' uncensored teacher reviews. Oh yes.
More recently - even our HN title is clickbait! Yet his write-up is fantastic, 100% true and a great read! This guy knows how to press people's buttons.
And remember, he got free hosting because some guy thought his writing was so hilarious.
OP, get into media, stat.
Oh, and OP? You are hilarious. No rose-tinted glasses about it.
"I was a pretty stereotypical “nerd” in high school. A debilitatingly shy and socially awkward computer club member who spent the vast majority of his time on the internet and listened exclusively to music by “Weird Al” Yankovic.".
* Being very introverted he hates doing the "people stuff" that is necessary to run a media empire
* While he is good at PR, he loves computer programming more
* He did PR in a way that worked quite well at a high school, but doing it professionally requires different/additional skills (say, people skills)
* While he has all the necessary competencies to run a media empire in principle, our society has some strong expectations how such people have to be (say, more extroverted, less nerdy).
* He has a very anarchistic way to run PR, which succeeded in its own way at the high school (see article), but does not work in a professional environment, where a different style is excepted, where he's not good at.
Everything he reported doing in high school is fantastic grassroots marketing and PR, and the content he created was great even back then. The teacher review is one of the best ideas, ever. He got everything down - content, distribution - even on slips of paper - the works.
This is exactly what you read in a media billionaire's bio: expelled from a prestigious high school for running an underground school newspaper, which printed students' uncensored teacher reviews. Oh yes.
More recently - even our HN title is clickbait! Yet his write-up is fantastic, 100% true and a great read! This guy knows how to press people's buttons.
And remember, he got free hosting because some guy thought his writing was so hilarious.
OP, get into media, stat.
Oh, and OP? You are hilarious. No rose-tinted glasses about it.