# [[10 ways I learn in public]]
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## Pre-production
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### Title
1. top 10 ways i learn in public (100)
### Hook
The best way to get a good answer on the internet is NOT to ask a good question. Millions of people ask questions all the time. Why would anyone answer yours?
No, the best way to get a good answer... is to post the a *bad* answer.
This is called "Cunningham's Law". It's overly simplistic and even misattributed to someone named Ward Cunningham, who denies ever having said it, but I can't help but feel there's still a little kernel of truth in it.
The truth is this: it's easier to get feedback when we show our work.
In this video, I'm going to talk about 10 different ways that I show my work by learning in public. Because that's really what all this note-taking is about: learning.
### Structure
- 1. Answer questions even when you're not sure. Raise PRs even if you're sure there's a better way. But be honest about what you know!
- 2. Read/listen/watch in public
- Making my [[Readwise]] highlights public.
- 3. `#TIL` on social media.
- (show my posts on pkm.social)
- 4. Publish your notes.
- Obsidian Publish
- Keep a public changelog.
- And ask people what's wrong!
- ![[lip-monitoring-kubernetes-daniel.png]]
- ![[lip-monitoring-kubernetes-response-daniel.png]]
- ![[learning-in-public-paul-balogh-instrumentation.png]]
- 5. Do livestreams where you just get to ask experts questions and be a public noob.
- No editing
- It's exposure for them, it's 1:1 time with an expert for me, and it's an opportunity for the audience to ask questions.
- Show `developer-advocacy` vault/GitHub repository - I show guests this before going live.
> [!NOTE] To Eve
> Please add 18:18-18:38 or so from the file `How to do continuous profiling right with Grafana Pyroscope_s Ryan Perry _Grafana Office Hours _26_.mp4` after I talk about asking people basic questions.
- 6. Summarise your notes in slide form and present it. Submit CFPs before the research is even done.
- [[sources/Presentation/Mine/Emergent load testing - TestCon Europe 2023|Emergent load testing - TestCon Europe 2023]]
- 7. Make edited videos and actually read, if not respond to, all the comments.
- Show video template: [[NVDH Video]]
- 8. Write a newsletter/blog that's a more polished version of your notes.
- Buttondown-Obsidian integration: [[TIP 01 - Wearing blades as well as jewels]]
- 9. Do canary deployments.
- Inner circle: friends
- Encourage ritual dissent.
- Friendly public: Patreon
- Public: that's all of you
### Outro
But wait-- didn't I say there'd be 10 ways I learn in public?
- 10. Write a book in public.
- It's called Doing It in Public.
- This is really scary for me. But I'm going to do it anyway.
- If you want to come along for the ride, click here to join my Discord server. There'll be a channel called "book-doing-it-in-public".
- Give me feedback on two things: Outline and Introduction.
Thanks for watching! *Mulศumesc*. (Mool-Too-mesk)
### Related videos and resources
๐ Quit: https://amzn.to/3vTk2EY
๐๏ธ My highlights on Quit: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/readwise/Books/Quit
๐๏ธ My literature notes on Quit: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/sources/Book/Quit
๐๏ธ Josh Branchaud's TIL GitHub repository: https://github.com/jbranchaud/til
๐๏ธ My notes on JavaScript: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/JavaScript
๐ป My version of the Vault Changelog plugin: https://github.com/nicolevanderhoeven/obsidian-vault-changelog
๐ My book, Doing It in Public: https://doingitinpublic.com
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```
My book's outline (What's missing?): https://doingitinpublic.com/
My version of the Vault Changelog plugin: https://github.com/nicolevanderhoeven/obsidian-vault-changelog
PLUGINS: Readwise Official, Vault Changelog, Advanced Slides, Buttondown
THEME: Typewriter (dark and light mode)
```
### Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:42 1: Answer questions even when you're not sure
01:40 2: Read in public
03:58 3: Use #TIL
08:28 4: Publish your notes
11:23 5: Livestream interviews with experts
14:05 6: Present your notes
16:37 7: Make videos
17:43 8: Write a newsletter
19:26 9: Do canary deployments
21:20 10: Write a book
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