How to kickstart my writing career?

[DefenderOfBasic]

TODO:

• this is an open question that I'm seeking help/advice with. It's like an open CV/resume?
• include brief description of my background (software engineer, immigrant to the US). Writing about tech & culture & political & local communities
• share my most successful articles?
  • unraveling jpeg, the shader one.
  • something else more about culture?
• what do I want to write about?

[DefenderOfBasic]

🕊️ = twitter thread

Pitches

• "Fiction is pseudocode for life"
  • how to explain fiction to people who don't understand fiction, using fiction.
  • very personal to me, dad said "fiction is useless" and I spent 13 years thinking about this and I finally got it
  • 🕊️ "now how do you explain [fiction] to someone who thinks fiction is useless/just for fun"
  • i think Cory Doctorow understands this quite well, and is why he writes fiction/non-fiction. It's because people don't change their minds by logic & reason (even the very logical ones). that's why this article is couched in terms of engineering terms/coding terms, to help this audience understand