Learning in Public

I keep coming back to this idea: the most useful thing you can share isn’t what you know, it’s what you’re in the middle of figuring out.

Conclusions are clean. They’ve had all the confusion edited out. The messy, embarrassing part — where you held the wrong model for six months, where you had to ask a basic question, where you changed your mind three times — that’s the part that’s actually useful to someone earlier in the same journey.

This is half-formed. I want to think more about:

• When does sharing-while-learning help versus mislead? There’s a real cost to putting wrong things into the world confidently.
• What’s the right venue? Public blog post vs. private notes vs. something in between?
• How does this interact with expertise? Does “learning in public” mean something different once you’re not a beginner?

More to come.