Get Noticed

Widen the circle of people who know what you do

Want more opportunities to be seen? Describe how your work, interests, and relationships put you in contact with new people and ideas. Get Noticed suggests practical ways to become more visible and create more opportunities for meaningful connections.

Overview

Get Noticed helps you create more opportunities for useful, unexpected connections and discoveries. Describe where your life currently puts you in contact with new people or ideas — work, hobbies, communities, places you spend time, things you make or share — and it describes how new people and opportunities reach you today, what narrows that, what is already working, and three to five practical ways to widen it. It does not calculate a luck percentage, because there is no defensible denominator for available serendipity, and it does not claim any move will produce a particular result. It explains the mechanism instead: what a change makes possible, not what it will deliver.

How to use it

  1. Describe where your life already puts you in contact with new people or ideas
  2. Optionally say what you would like more chances to encounter, and what you already do
  3. Read your current opportunity surface — narrow, mixed, or broad — and what narrows it
  4. Work through the moves; each names the exposure it creates, not a result it promises
  5. Start with the one move marked Start here

Example

Scenario: You work from home on the same team you have been on for three years, see a small group of friends, and share nothing publicly about what you do.

What you do: Describe the work, the friend group, and the fact that you do not post about your work; say you would like more chances at interesting collaborators.

Result: A narrow reading with the reasons named concretely — most contact runs through one team and one friend group — what already works, and three to five moves that each open a different route, with the smallest first step for each.

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