Increasing Your Luck Surface Area and Yes, the Big Dogs Read Hacker News

Jason Calacanis follows me on twitter, I presume it's through here. I find this absolutely hilarious because I basically only ever use twitter to claim special offers and send shoutouts to pirate radio stations.<p>I presume he's using some sort of automated marketing tool to follow lots of people who will then follow him back, the sly dog.<p>Thinking about it it probably means that those social media influence ranking tools give me quite a lot of points. I love how ePenis is now a real, measurable value.

Am I missing something or was the linked post basically about someone of fame adding the author to its G+ circle? Very interesting.

Even though the article covers a lot of other things, I very much agree with the headline.<p>I am a newcomer to Hacker News, but after spending just short two weeks immersing myself into the community I only wish I have committed HN to my daily routine earlier.<p>There is definitely lots of benefits to posting your submissions and trying to hit front page to promote yourself and get business for your company... But merely following discussions on the multitude of technical and business problems can really help you find the solutions you have not thought about...<p>In just two weeks here, I've already made some contacts from the site and incorporated some learnings into our product.<p>Definitely want to thank the entire community.

Jason, this is too meta. I clicked this because I knew you wrote it based on the title and thought it would be worth my time to read a well-thought content-filled Jason Roberts article. Imagine my suprise when it was a meta-article about another article you wrote and someone adding you on G+. Come on man.

If anyone is interested in more about the Luck Surface Area concept, I believe it was first mentioned on Jason's podcast TechZing.<p>Ep 59: <a href="http://techzinglive.com/page/295/techzing-59-jasonism" rel="nofollow">http://techzinglive.com/page/295/techzing-59-jasonism</a> at the 65minute mark

HN is the new TED