Should You Talk Online as an ML Engineer?

[@jorgesanabria6484]

Welcome back!!

[@coreygallon]

Great to see you, Radak! Thanks for sharing these thoughts, mate! They are just as insightful as those in your book. Keep up the good work!

[@radek_osmulski]

Thank you so much for this much appreciated very kind feedback! 😊🙏 Seems I might be off to a good start to 2024 😉 Very grateful for your comment and overjoyed to hear you had a good time reading my book!!! 😄🙌

[@LoliFail1]

Welcome back Radek! 🥳🎉 I've gotten a lot from your blog posts and video content over the last year, looking forward to you releasing some more awesome content :---)!

[@radek_osmulski]

Oh wow, what a heart-warming and encouraging comment! 😁 Thank you so very much, this is terrific to hear!!! 🙏🙏🙏😊

[@m2007icky]

Great video! It resonates deeply with the principles shared in your'Learn In Public' blog. Your insights encourage us to embrace public discourse, helping us grow as professionals and create a collaborative learning environment. Keep up the fantastic work!

[@radek_osmulski]

Thank you! 😊 Appreciate your supportive comment! 🥳

[@EkShunya]

please do more sessions with hamel, they were phenomenal thank you for sharing :)

[@radek_osmulski]

Thank you! 😊 And note taken -- Hamel is an amazing person, let me see if there might be something he would be keen to discuss on camera at some point! 😉

[@EkShunya]

Axolotl please 🙏🏾@@radek_osmulski

[@radek_osmulski]

I have only used axolotl once, a couple of months ago, but the wheels are in motion thanks to your comment 🙂 Let's see what happens 😉 Can't promise anything but your voice is most certainly heard and noted!

[@zigzag4273]

Hey Radek, what would you recommend a person who is a) shy to talk online (fear of being thought of as stupid by people in the industry) and b) who doesn't have a lot of industry experience do ?

[@radek_osmulski]

Hey! There is probably no escape from doing at least a bit of talking. Maybe not on video, but at least writing. I know of a person from the fast.ai community (they were a pilot, I forgot their name) who started a blog, wrote about his projects, and then started to apply for jobs. And it worked 🙂 But none of this is an easy or guaranteed path. A lot of people struggle quite a lot, you can read more about their experiences here: forums.fast.ai/t/are-you-doing-online-courses-in-the-hopes-of-learning-to-code-getting-a-job-in-ml/62797/8 Also, I can fully relate to your concerns. This is somewhat what I am doing right now, trying to un-shy myself about talking online. I have a video on some of the ideas that I am trying to leverage to help in the process. Will try to post it soon-ish. Hope some of this can be helpful 🙏

[@radek_osmulski]

Also -- there is no one path. Some people form amazing friendships and working relationship via discord for instance, which is something I haven't even tried. So you can make others path work (I hear some people go to college for computer science and get their foot in the door this way 😉). But talking online in one way or another (even if you read talking as writing) can be super helpful. But I hope my words do not discourage you. As long as you keep trying you'll find a way that works for you, be that overcoming the unwillingness to talk online or finding some other way that doesn't involve doing so. You got it! 🙌