Getting Senpai To Notice You

How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting the leaders of that field to at least read your writing and know your name.

Getting Senpai To Notice You swyx 2022-09-18 I started messing with Stable Diffusion on Sept 3rd. I published my first post on it yesterday, Sept 17. In that time I've had nice responses from Emad Mostaque (founder of Stability AI), Simon Willison (cofounder of Django, and prolific SD blogger), and gotten new follows from Emad, hardmaru (of Google Brain) and Cristobal Valenzuela (cofounder of Runway ML). At time of writing 14 hours after posting, the post has had 3k views, while the tweet had 49k, on a Saturday evening (typically weekends have about half the engagement of weekdays). A very goo

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