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by tedmiston 3839 days ago
Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon

It's a short book with a bias toward action that's changed how I interact with my work and share it with others.

Key takeaways:

- good work doesn't market or promote itself [writing a great library doesn't matter if you don't have docs and examples to make it accessible to people]

- give people a convenient way to access your work [convince yourself that having a personal mailing list does not make you too self-important]

- share your side projects to create a feedback loop early [maybe they could help solve other people's problems too] / stop telling yourself "i'll ship this after i fix one more thing"

- let good ideas bubble up from "flow" to "stock" -- for example, a few well received tweets might lead to a blog post which might lead to a whole book

- reuse the things you create across projects and mediums

- life is messy and uncertain, but you choose how you crop and present your experiences [share the interesting parts!]

My full chapter-by-chapter notes: https://github.com/tedmiston/notes/blob/master/books/Show%20...

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Your notes repo is a great idea, and seems to flow from some of Kleon's principles.

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