Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 19] - What If Nothing Works?

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 18] - Limiting Beliefs

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 17] - Frequency

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 16] - Editing

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 15] - Headline/Preview Testing

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 14] - Tips on Writing

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 13] - Importance of Process

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 12] - Engineering Topics

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 11] - Advice, Passion, and Build In Public

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 10] - Story-Telling

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 9] - Community-First Approach

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 8] - Bottom-Funnel Channels

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 7] - Mid-Funnel Channels

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 6] - LinkedIn and Twitter

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 5] - Top-Funnel Channels

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 4] - Strategy #2: Social Media is a Sales Funnel

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 3] - Strategy #1: Catering to Your Strength

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 2] - Michael's Backstory

Michael saw the transformative power of influence after he left his job at Netflix. This video reveals the new opportunities enabled by cultivating an audience. Michael talks about which platforms he grew on, among Medium, LinkedIn, Twitter, a newsletter, and more.

Connect with Michael:

- LinkedIn: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-lin-tech/>
- Twitter: [https://x.com/\_michaellin](https://x.com/%5C_michaellin)
- Newsletter: <https://www.michaellinwrites.com/>

Become An Engineer Influencer [Part 1] - What Is An Engineer Influencer?

An engineer influencer is an engineer who builds an audience on social media and uses that to kickstart their future startup or business.

Examples include:

- [Rahul Pandey](https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulPandeyrkp) - ex-Meta engineer, who leveraged his 60k followers on YouTube to launch Taro, a career-mentoring app that got into YCombinator

- [Gergely Orosz](https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz) - ex-Uber engineering manager, who used his Twitter following to grow his paid newsletter "The Pragmatic Engineer" to 140k readers in 18 months

- [Daniel Vassallo](https://twitter.com/dvassallo) - ex-Amazon engineer, who grew his following to 130k followers on Twitter and now teaches a highly successful cohort based class called "Portfolio of Small Bets"

Each of these engineer influencers focused on building their social media following first.

This helped them build credibility, expand their network, and guarantee them a distribution channel for their future product.

Connect with Michael:

- LinkedIn: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-lin-tech/>
- Twitter: [https://x.com/\_michaellin](https://x.com/%5C_michaellin)
- Newsletter: <https://www.michaellinwrites.com/>

Taro Book Club: Designing Data Intensive Applications - Chapter 8 (Distributed Systems)

Topic: Chapter 8 - The Trouble with Distributed Systems

In this #taro-bookclub discussion, we'll go over Chapter 8 of [**"Designing Data-Intensive Applications"**](https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable/dp/1449373321) by Martin Kleppmann.

Here's the agenda:

- We’ll break down and discuss the key concepts from Chapter 8.
- There will also be time for any questions and answers you might have.

Please send your questions ahead of time to [**Rohit Katyal**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohitkatyal/) in the [**Taro Premium**](https://www.jointaro.com/membership/) Slack, so that they can be included in the discussion. *If you don't have the book or want more details on how this all works, check out the #taro-bookclub channel in the Taro Premium Slack as well!*

Get ready for another engaging and informative session!

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