Increase Your Luck: Resources

  1. Time: 24 Hours daily, about 10 hours realistically.
  2. Body: Eat a balanced diet. Sleep for 9 hours. Use body weight to exercise.
  3. Your network: Friends, extended family, family friends, colleagues, former colleagues, classmates, neighbors, LinkedIn connections, social media friends, customers, prospects, strangers.
    • Talk. (Meeting in-person > video call > audio call > texting)
    • Help.
    • Ask. (Advice, referrals, help)
    • Follow-up.
  4. Email: Reach anyone in the world.
    • You get at least 30 cold emails per day per address to avoid spam filters and protect domain reputation. Use another address after.
    • Use email finder tools.
  5. Physical mail: Snail mail, ₹5 for national, ₹40 for international. Need address.
  6. Social media: LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, X/Twitter, Discord, Facebook, TikTok, etc.
    • Post (content 101).
    • Engage (comment, reply, message, join communities).
    • Consume.
  7. AI: Research and build. Get free limited usage everyday. Find 100+ free providers here.
  8. Automation: Self-host1 n8n. Or use AI to code solutions and run on PC.
  9. Learning: MOOCs, YouTube, documentation, books, Wikipedia, AI, etc.2
  10. Experimentation: Test your theories cheaply. Run experiments. And then more. Learn and share.

Footnotes

  1. If you have a computer lying around, you can self host a ton of useful applications. Check out awesome-selfhosted, selfh.st & r/selfhosted. ↩

  2. For free certifications, Class Central has this massive list. Although, knowledge is free and certifications are fad. For computer science specifically, Github has awesome lists of MOOCs, mostly without certifications. ↩

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