Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

I finished "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Kahneman - A slow read, but a good one. He talks about the intricacies and surprising observations about how me take decisions. "Logicomix" - A brief "history" of logic, its not always historically accurate. Did I tell you its a graphic novel? "Show Your work" - Aston Kleon - A short motivating read about sharing ones work, he makes some good arguments for sharing the process as well, not just the product. Picked up "Coders at work" - read two chapters, a great read so far (I know its pretty popular one amoung HN)

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... (https://github.com/tedmiston/notes/blob/master/books/Show%20Your%20Work!.md)