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How to ask for help from people who don't know you

https://pradyuprasad.com/writings/how-to-ask-for-help/
44•FigurativeVoid•2h ago

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nilirl•31m ago
The strongest signal you can give people now is offering personal interaction. It's expensive to go meet someone or ask someone if you can call them.

I wrote about this from the perspective of someone with no connections [0] but I think even if you're well connected, reaching out to people from other networks is a useful way to gain access to great thinking, information, and opportunity.

[0] https://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/marketing-under-pres...

jdw64•20m ago
Alright, after reading this, I'll put it into practice right away. First, I'll make a list of people I want to get close to, and then I'll shoot them an email to see if they'd like to stay in touch with me

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Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection

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1229•drewfax•12h ago•501 comments

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36•ltiger•1h ago•14 comments

AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules

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127•mushstory•2h ago•46 comments

Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train

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64•tcp_handshaker•3h ago•15 comments

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64•Eikon•2h ago•34 comments

How to ask for help from people who don't know you

https://pradyuprasad.com/writings/how-to-ask-for-help/
45•FigurativeVoid•2h ago•2 comments

German button maker searched rivers of American Midwest for valuable shells

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52•bookofjoe•4d ago•12 comments

Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot

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300•unliftedq•11h ago•126 comments

The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain

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165•ColinWright•4h ago•95 comments

Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring for Our Largest Government Contract

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1•augustschen•2h ago

The fall of the theorem economy

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166•varjag•7h ago•67 comments

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79•toomuchtodo•2h ago•16 comments

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17•rkochanowski•1h ago•5 comments

Vite+ Beta

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161•Erenay09•4h ago•93 comments

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22•emson•1d ago•16 comments

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415•devicelimit•15h ago•80 comments

ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

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475•chvid•17h ago•317 comments

The Meadows of Medieval Summer

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10•lermontov•6d ago•8 comments

CursorBench 3.1

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99•handfuloflight•10h ago•65 comments

WinPE as a stateless harness for Windows driver testing and fuzzing

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44•piotrbednarsalt•3d ago•2 comments

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28•doener•4h ago•0 comments

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18•Korridzy•2h ago•5 comments

My favorite keyboards

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91•tmach32•3d ago•77 comments

Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers

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122•matt_d•12h ago•92 comments

Winamp Skin Museum

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68•sarah-robiin•2h ago•36 comments

Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction

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79•breadislove•2d ago•29 comments

Germany’s Infineon opens major chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy

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73•giuliomagnifico•3h ago•19 comments

Bring back crappy forums

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453•pentagrama•13h ago•287 comments

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20•lam_hg94•2h ago•4 comments