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*Doing WHAT in public?*

We often treat learning something the way we treat sex.

We hesitate to acknowledge we're doing it, for fear of judgment or ridicule. If we must do it, we do it behind closed doors, and even as we enjoy it, we do so with the appropriate amount of guilt. We delight in it in secret until one day, perhaps nine months from now, we have something to show for it: a product of our efforts. This, finally, is a thing we can be publicly proud of, even as we downplay the process of getting there.

The truth is that everyone else is doing it too.

It's difficult to admit we have a lot to learn, especially when we need to learn things we feel we ought to know already. No matter how much experience we have, or how often we've made something, it's still difficult to silence the nagging voice in our heads that wonders how we got as far as we did without knowing much of anything. We don't want to be found out, so we transgress in the dark and play catch-up and make our mistakes where nobody else will see them. At the end of it, if we chance upon the creation of something halfway decent, *then* we let other people see it. This, in our minds, is what it looks like to be an expert maker of stuff: a showcase of beautiful things made from "nothing". Because we're just that good.

But there's another way to make things without the angst, one that is kinder to ourselves than we sometimes forget to be. It's a way that enables us to learn and think and play and question and make mistakes without feeling like we're stupid. It's a philosophy of learning that is forgiving while moving fast enough to be fun:

*Doing it in public.*

## What is learning in public?

Learning in public is a fundamental subversion of how most of us learn to learn.
## Why should you learn in public?


## How do you learn in public?




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title: Welcome to Doing It in Public
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I'm [Nicole van der Hoeven](https://nicolevanderhoeven.com), and *Doing It in Public* is a book I'm writing about learning in public: what it is, why you should do it, and practical instructions for how to do it. To keep up with the spirit of the book, I'm attempting to write the book itself in public. That means that depending on when you're reading this, you may still find the book in various stages of disarray. Be warned! Here be dragons.

## Reading this book

I'm using a GitHub repository for version controlling the book, but the best place to read it while it's in progress is on [doingitinpublic.com](https://doingitinpublic.com).
## Giving feedback

A vital part of this process is getting (and responding to) feedback at every step. To facilitate this, here are the best ways you can give me feedback:
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*Please don't* give feedback on spelling and grammar. That'll all be sorted out during the proofreading later.


## Outline

### [[Introduction]]

### The case for doing it in public
### Chapter 1. The case for doing it in public

- Limiting beliefs that hold us back from making things
- Open-sourcing knowledge: why open source still works
- Accountability and precommitments
- Authenticity by default, and ethical creativity
- Cunningham's Law
- When you can show your work
- Ritual dissent
- What is all this for?

### Principles for doing it in public
### Chapter 2. Principles for doing it in public

#### Make it observable
- Observability of complex distributed systems
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### Building a foundation for learning in public

#### Tier 0. Microlearning
#### Chapter 3. Tier 0: Microlearning
- Starting before you're ready
- What if it could be easy?
- Social media
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- Commonplace books and resonance calendars
- Arguments for plain text
- (social media, code, microblogging, taking notes)
#### Tier 1. Systematising your learning
#### Chapter 4. Tier 1: Systematising your learning
- Turning notes into a Personal Knowledge Management system
- Creating your own site
- Version control and gitting gud
- The value of a public changelog
- Formulating your core principles and ethics statement, manifesto for posting online
- (PKM, static site generators, Git)

#### Tier 2. Longform learning
#### Chapter 5. Tier 2: Longform learning
- The value of failed experiments
- Leaning into your unfair advantage
- Creating high-effort content based on signals
- Repurposing content to broaden your reach
- (videos, blog posts, larger development projects, songs, podcasts)

#### Tier 3. Automating your learning
#### Chapter 6. Tier 3: Automating your learning
- Creating a content calendar
- Deciding on publishing cadence, developing consistency
- Scheduling posts and creating a buffer
- Feedback triage and prioritising
- Building a CI/CD pipeline for learning
- (content management, product management, processing pipeline, Zapier)
#### Tier 4. Building a community
#### Chapter 7: Tier 4: Building a community
- Creating strategic content
- Helping others
- Saying no
- Making a living out of doing it in public
- (communities, courses, conference talks, apps)

### When to learn in private
- Privacy and security
### Chapter 8. Pitfalls in learning in public

- Optimal quitting and exit criteria for learning in public
- Burnout and overwork
- Optimal quitting
- Art vs Exhibitionism
- When is feedback noise?
- Strategic inauthenticity

### Chapter 9. How to learn in private

- Strategic inauthenticity
- Setting public boundaries
- Core principles
- Ethics statement
- Manifesto for posting online
- Automatic no list, automatic no reply list
- Defensive calendaring
- Identifying distant mentors
- The art of lurking
- Steel-manning and the Hegelian Dialectic
- Platonic forms and mental models
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