I want to learn how to better market myself and what it means to create my own personal brand and how I might be able to apply these marketing skills in my career (as a software developer and computer scientist) and as a writer. Because I do wonder what sort of impact and influence I would have if I applied even an ounce of marketing or branding.
I’m planning on sinking my teeth into two different marketing books. My guitar instructor had recommended Seth Godin’s This is Marketing and a hacker news user recommended an e-book titled Authority by (someone I’ve never heard of) named Nathan Barry. I’ll take a crack at these two books and report back on the main takeaways and whether or not I recommend you reading them.
At this moment in time, I have no clue what it means to build a personal brand (in all honestly I don’t even know what a personal brand means). Nonetheless, I do think learning about a little marketing and branding (really what’s the difference between the two) will be a worthwhile, non-technical skill to develop since I’d like down the line to become a full time writer and teacher and think marketing and branding will play a key role in making that happen.
I’m Matt Chung. I’m a software engineer, seasoned technology leader, and father currently based in Seattle and London. I love to share what I know. I write about topic developing scalable & fail-safe software running in the AWS cloud, digital organization as a mechanism for unlocking your creativity, and maximizing our full potentials with personal development habits.
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