How strongly I recommend it: 9/10
A great book summarising the main arguments why you should learn in public.
- Why should one show their work
- Audience is eager for process
- Getting feedback helps with the creative process
- Artists can gain financial independence
- We are all amateurs - you do not have to be an expert to show your work
- How should one show their work
- Focus on producing great work
- Produce content daily - the process
- Explore different possibilities
- Focus on one channel
- Do not be afraid of failing - given our mortality, “you are already naked”
- Have your own base - social media can go obsolete
- Use your social media as “flow”, but collect the flow into “stock”
- Think “self-invention”, not “self-promotion”
- Give credit and give links to people with credits
- Know the structures of story-telling and tell good stories
- Choose the right self-description
- Create real (e.g. offline) connections with like-minded people
- Social media is a place to meet, not a place to build relationships (to some extent, just like dating websites)
- Improve your work with criticisms, and block the haters
- Build a newspaper
- How not to show your work
- Do not post anything that you are not prepared for the whole world to see
- “post as though everyone who can read it has the power to fire you”
- Do not hoard
- Do not single-mindedly promote your work without learning from and sharing others
- Qaulity of followers > quantity
- Followers easy to gain are also easy to lose - Yihui Xie
- Do not ask people to follow you
- Stop doing things/meeting people that drain you
- Do not share things that are too close to you to be exposed to criticism
- Do not indulge in the fame and forget producing great work.
- Do not post anything that you are not prepared for the whole world to see
