A bulletproof, 100% certain to work process for landing an amazing gig:

1) Don’t worry so much about finding your “passion”. Pursue mastery.

More often than not deep competence creates deep passion.

Ask yourself “what’s A thing (not THE thing) I want to get really good at?”

2) You probably don’t know anything yet about that thing. At least not enough to get paid.

Pick up the 10 best books on the subject. Read them.

Take good notes (my process is below). https://twitter.com/intentionally/status/1253137544063201280

3) Start a website or newsletter.

Summarize the books. Include your commentary if you have any. If you don’t that’s okay.

- Starting a site by curating gives you time to find your voice.
- It’s low risk (you don’t have any subscribers yet).

Collect emails.

4) Get aggressive on Twitter.

- Turn your summaries into threads. Credit them.

- Find who the smartest people are in your space. Follow them.

- Conment/like their stuff. Get them familiar with your avatar and name.

- Create threads summarizing their best ideas.

5) Expand curation into interesting articles in your space.

Continue to take notes and build your mental models.

When you include someone in your newsletter tell them and tweet at them.

6) Consider starting a podcast.

Invite the people you’ve been following. Most people haven’t been asked to be on many podcasts and would be thrilled.

7) Turn the podcast episodes into summaries for your newsletter. Also turn the most interesting ideas into threads on Twitter.

8) Create a self apprenticeship to practice all the stuff you’re learning.

Examples:

- Create a mock-up a day
- Build an app
- Study 10k reports
- Analyze pitch decks from competitions.
- Do HBR cases
- Do diligence on real estate deals

9) To get even more reps consider working for free. Volunteer for the org in town. Reach out to your network.

Getting paid is great if you’re good enough to warrant it. If you’re not, optimize for the reps by removing the friction of money.

10) Document what you’re learning in the process of ^ on your site or newsletter.

Publish tear downs of app onboarding experiences. Analyze a company that’s going public. Share the results of your SEO tests.

11) Create a Slack community for people in your space. Not the famous ones, but the up and comers like you. Invite your subscribers.

Aggressively welcome them. Introduce them to each other.

Invite your podcast guests to do AMAs for the group.

12) By now you hopefully know some things. Create your opus - your “unified theory of x.”

It should be long. Make it the best version of that article anywhere online.

Reference all your notes. References great twitter threads. Tell everyone you reference about it.

13) Note that none of this involves sending out your resume. That’s deliberate.

If you do the above, people will start approaching you with jobs. And consulting gigs. And speaking opportunities.

If you are disciplined and consistent, you’ll never need to look for a job again.