Think in Public

• To think in public, one must write in public.
• Care little about feedback unless it helps you. Kerouac said: “No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge”

Others

• Joel Hooks: On writing more

  Being useful for me is the primary use case for this space on the internet. It’s not that I don’t care about you, but this is for me. It’s here so I can record what I think and know and preserve it in time and space.

• Hannes Eichblatt: Writing in Public
• Daniel Miessler’s Unsupervised Learning newsletter No. 363:

  Commit to writing more. (..) Just be yourself, in public, to whatever degree makes you comfortable.

• Mental Nodes: The only way to learn in public is to build in public

  Keeping a public log of what you build is an effective way to track your learning progress. (..) Our natural fear of being judged leads most people to build, learn, and think privately. But seeking validation should not be the goal of learning in public. Instead, the goal should be to tap into your network’s collective intelligence to create constructive feedback loops.

• Only way to avoid overly focussing on consumption.
• Creates stock while feeding the flow