UCLA professor Philip E. Agre has a really good article on how to become a leader in your chosen field; it runs a little long but here are the main take-aways:
- Pick an issue.
- Start a project to study it.
- Find relevant people and talk to them.
- Pull together what you’ve heard.
- Circulate the result.
- Build on your work.
Duh.

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