Learn in Public

The practice of sharing what one is learning, and building, as it happens, rather than after it is finished. The posts filed here make three points:

• Learning and building go together. A May 2020 post (recovered from the Wayback Machine) reads “The only way to learn in public is to build in public.” Another quotes the same idea: learning in public should be synonymous with building in public, which keeps consumption and creation balanced, and a public log of what one builds tracks learning progress.
• Sharing realigns you with reality. Salman’s thread cites Elizabeth Gilbert on the “pain” of holding ideas too long, and says sharing is caring for yourself rather than pleasing an audience.
• The medium is a blog, a channel or a digital garden. Shu Pinkus-Omi recommends “Why Bother?” for anyone starting a blog, a YouTube channel or a Digital Garden to learn in public, and has a video titled “Why You Should Learn in Public.” Howard Marks’s 2007 memo is posted by Kanyi Maqubela as an example of thinking in public.

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