Learning in public views content as the necessary byproduct of true learning (View Highlight)
Learning in private usually means learning on your own. In that case, you’re responsible for figuring out what you don’t know, finding quality resources to use for learning, and actually trying to make sense of things. All of those things can be extremely difficult to do, and can take a lot of time, when you’re a beginner on a topic. When you learn in public, throwing out a single simple question and listening to responses helps you skip a lot of the trial and error in those steps. You are taking advantage of an entire community’s knowledge and wisdom instead of relying on your own (or lack thereof). (View Highlight)
is a way of testing out ideas, getting early constructive feedback, and fixing those bugs in your thinking before they become issues. (View Highlight)
Publishing what you’re thinking, and your current thoughts on things, encourages people to critique you and challenge you— and that’s a good thing. Diversity of thought and experience from critics not only enhances your current work but also forces you to consider different perspectives in future work (View Highlight)
There’s something magical about thinking out loud. Humans naturally avoid rejection, so saying a thing out loud to someone else forces us to structure our thoughts, even if no one responds (View Highlight)
One of the biggest problems in doing almost anything creative is fighting Impostor Syndrome. You might think you’re not the best person to be publishing anything about a topic that you don’t know that much about, one that you’ve just begun to learn. You’re not a guru. Learning in public subverts that, because if you’re open about the fact that you’re just learning in public, it sets everyone’s expectations lower. Learning in public is more about leaving a trail of breadcrumbs or Learning Exhaust for others to follow— being a guide who’s just spent a bit more time thinking about something than the average person, instead of a guru who knows it all (View Highlight)