[wh-uws]

For me pretty much the same answer as I would give for being a failed startup founder

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25262382

As far as dev specific I wish I had

- focused on building and contributing to awesome teams. I hate that I got so caught up in the celebrity of a few individual luminaries in our industry. In reality I needed to focus on recruiting other awesome people who filled in my gaps instead of thinking I was so smart and trying to do everything myself.

- Built a professional public profile via a place like twitter earlier also my blog and website

I've had my twitter (and my blog somewhat) open up so many opportunities for me its crazy. All just from saying decently intelligent common sense stuff on there. Don't toil in the shadows give people a chance to see who you are

- not learning data structures and algorithms well early. Its all the best software teams interview for. I knew web well (circa 2010/2011) and no one cared. So I had to go back. Also now all that web stuff I knew so well is all but useless because its obsolete. But the dsalgo stuff doesn't change as quickly

[frompdx]

I've had my twitter (and my blog somewhat) open up so many opportunities for me its crazy.

What kind of opportunities twitter create for you?

I blog, and I have a twitter account. My twitter is neglected and it never seemed like something useful. Can you share what made it work for you?