source: https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/
- a habit of creating learning exhaust
- Write blogs and tutorials and cheatsheets.
- Speak at meetups and conferences.
- Ask and answer things on Stackoverflow or Reddit.
- Avoid the walled gardens like Slack and Discord, they’re not public.
- Make Youtube videos or Twitch streams.
- Start a newsletter.
- Draw cartoons (people loooove cartoons!)
- 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
- Oh you think you’re done? Don’t stop there:
- Enjoyed a coding video? Reach out to the speaker/instructor and thank them, and ask questions.
- Make PR’s to libraries you use.
- Make your own libraries no one will ever use.
- Clone stuff you like, from scratch, to see how they work.
- Teach workshops.
- Go to conferences and summarize what you learned.
- The subheading under this rule would be: Try your best to be right, but don’t worry when you’re wrong.
- People think you suck? Good. You agree. Ask them to explain, in detail, why you suck
- You want to just feel good or you want to be good?
- Then go away and prove them wrong. Of course, if they get abusive block them.
- At some point you’ll get some support behind you. People notice genuine learners. They’ll want to help you.
- Don’t tell them, but they just became your mentors.
- This is very important: Pick up what they put down
- Because you learn in public. By teaching you, they teach many.