Fame vs Success

Get famous; then you still don't know anyone, but they "know" you.

Have you met the public? Fame is an acquired taste and more likely the lesser of evils.

I think you underestimate the lengths to which some people will go for fame.

Is "achieved success" vs. notoriety something to consider here? Maybe parameterized w.r.t. time period? (90s vs. now, etc.)

I think it's a side effect of becoming so well known in a short amount of time.

you would need to be really famous.

I'm personally not very well-known, but I work for someone who is, and on a project that gets quite a lot of attention because of it. It's surprisingly common that people show up with extraordinary and incoherent stories. Given the author's name and email address are plastered all over, it is not surprising that such people would find him too.An article was shared here a while ago that went into that as well: <a href="https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/re

I accidentally down voted you on my iPad because the little buttons are too close, but I agree entirely with what you said and Lisa sounds extremely naive. Fame is a function of much more than just doing stuff. The media, for example, play an important and often highly selective role. Some have become famous by sleeping with the right producers, some have cured polio. Some have very obscure fame, Knuth, for example, is known pretty much to, and only to, every CS major. Youthful enthusiasm often

This could be more a statement of celebrity than genius.

It's probably a flaw of public attention that fame isn't linked to the field it is gained in.