| IMO this is what causing this huge self-promotion trend. 1 - it's become so much easier and accessible, with twitter, blog, FB, IG, YT. 2 - your ability to promote yourself has great impact in your financial and career growth. 3 - EGO. Remember when you were the smartest kid in your high school and then went to university and realized, there are many smart people like you. SV, is the next step above. Everyone thinks they're the next Steve Jobs, Musk, etc. until the start working with other smart peers. You were once the smart kid in the family, high school, your university classes, etc. Then you come to SV and realize wow, so many other smart people here. I'm just another average guy/gal who was in my top 1% of my college or high school. Some of these peers are even more driven than me and they're great hustlers. So you either accept that you're not so special, or you try to out hustle others for recognition. |
True. But why has it become acceptable? We choose to use micro-publishing to brag. It's just as easy and accessible to publish your own bowel movements, but we haven't normalized that.
It's not the tech doing it by itself.