Thinking in public accelerates learning
Sharing unfinished work creates accountability to your ideas.
When thoughts stay private, they can remain vague. Publishing—even to an audience of zero—forces articulation.
digital-gardens make this sustainable by:
- Labeling maturity (seedling, budding, evergreen)
- Expecting evolution (nothing is final)
- Celebrating rough edges (that's the authentic thinking)
maggie-appleton calls it "learning in public." You show process, not just polish.
Risks exist. Embarrassment. Misunderstanding. But writing-for-yourself-reduces-friction mitigates this: you're not writing for the audience, you're writing for yourself with the garage door up.
The compound benefits: feedback, connections, forcing function for clarity, external memory, serendipitous discovery by others.