WIP the case for sharing your work in public

What other studies show, though, is that sharing your progress can be beneficial: for example, sharing your weight loss progress on Twitter is a great way to stay motivated.

Why is this the case? Because you are then receiving praise about the process (the actual work) and not about your identity (the way you present yourself).

“Become a documentarian of what you do.”

*Austin Kleon, author of Show Your Work

Learning in public means sharing your process and challenges, rather than just the final product.

Sharing your work and learning in public will allow you to reflect and plan your next steps. Instead of just plowing through work, sharing it with people who lack the context you have will force you to think about your approach, strategies, and progress in a deeper way.

. Learning in public will allow you to take a more iterative approach, and ensure that what you’re working on answers the need you have identified.

By sharing your ideas, you will increase the likelihood of connecting the dots between your ideas and other people’s ideas, thus creating your mini experiment lab with other researchers.

You may be afraid someone will steal your idea. Or you may suffer from impostor syndrome and think that you’re work is not good enough to be shared in public. But working on an idea in a vacuum stifles the creative process.