Were these nerds toiling to the benefit or tune of some charlatan, some _Trismegistus_ -- or were they too much the hermit, one who toils without the clutch or gearing for meshing with the gears of society? With the central limit theorem their sovereign then probably both I guess, instinct says more the latter.
The way you file the teeth of your gears is a real struggle. I wish there were more resources for it, AI has an opportunity to fill a gap here. I know the path of salvation is doing my normal do _just more aggressively and in public_.
I managed to carve out a real small niche making an indie game publicly over a year and a half, posted a few hundred videos. Some knocks and I lost the momentum for constant publishing. The work hasn't stopped, but the ephemeral threads of a narrative feel harder to grasp. Do I just start posting things out of nowhere, acting like I never stopped? Do I montage the unpublished backlog? Do I wait until I've achieved some scientific breakthrough?
I've got videos of flood fill lightning and neural networks and sheep shapeshifting and explosions and probably 100 other things I've forgotten. Maybe the problem is that I never knew who my audience was. Shouting into the canyon is harder than it looks.