Summary
Learning in public is a great way to accelerate your learning process. It involves sharing your progress and discoveries with others, which can help you stay motivated and accountable. It also allows you to receive feedback and advice from experienced professionals. The key is to focus on the learning process, not the results. Don't worry about how many "claps" or retweets you get - instead, think about what you wish you had known when you were just starting out. Keep a blog or journal to document your progress and talk to yourself from 3 months ago. This will help you stay on track and make sure you're learning the right things.
Top Highlights
- But chances are that by far the biggest beneficiary of you trying to help past you is future you. If others benefit, that’s icing.
- most people “learn in private”, and lurk. They consume content without creating any themselves. Again, that’s fine, but we’re here to talk about being in the top quintile. What you do here is to have a habit of creating learning exhaust: Write blogs and tutorials and cheatsheets. Speak at meetups and conferences. Ask and answer things on Stackover...
- Whatever your thing is, make the thing you wish you had found when you were learning. Don’t judge your results by “claps” or retweets or stars or upvotes - just talk to yourself from 3 months ago. I keep an almost-daily dev blog written for no one else but me.
- ry your best to be right, but don’t worry when you’re wrong. Repeatedly. If you feel uncomfortable, or like an impostor, good. You’re pushing yourself. Don’t assume you know everything, but try your best anyway, and let the internet correct you when you are inevitably wrong.
- chances are that by far the biggest beneficiary of you trying to help past you is future you.
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Melanie Lee
This is a true statement and is inspiring to me. It's inspiring because I feel I can't escape the negativity of a world I do not know or understand. This makes me just want to not care about others and what they think of me ever again.
Jo Zoll
Well written, easy to digest and an inspiration to share learnings. Each one, teach one.