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📜 File pages/public.org by @jakeisnt ☆ 📎 ⛶

On working in the public.

Problem: I want to work on ideas and collaborate with others. My data, however, is locked, as is the data of everyone else.

We can't properly share information unless we learn in the public; we also have substantial issues learning about ourselves if we do not track what we learn.

Iteration on ideas is just as important as the initial ideas!

Learn in Public

Always create while working! https://www.swyx.io/writing/learn-in-public/

Don't judge results by feedback; talk to yourself from some time ago.
It doesn't matter how many people are reached with your content. The best beneficiary of you helping your past self is future you.
Connect with others:
- Make PRs to libraries you use
- Make your own libraries
- Clone stuff to see how it works
- Summarize learning in the public
Build a persistent knowledge base (like this one!)
Always, always, always document what you did and the problems you solved.
If people doubt you, have them explain their perspective!
Focus on teaching yourself.

Provide feedback

Write everything publicly.
Ask and answer things on public forums. Do not spend time helping others on private forums.

Do not end the week with nothing

article, from patio11 There is nothing wrong with day jobs! Some really enjoy them. If the job is right for you, that's wonderful.

If the day job is not right for you, learn on your own.

"It is in the employee's personal insterest to stop selling hours of labor and start renting access to his accumulated capital as soon as humanly possible."

In other words, to become valuable, you must accumulate valuable experience, hard skills and trust, then leverage these to continue to be constructive.

If you end the week with nothing, nothing about your life will change! No matter how hard you work you'll come back the next week having built another internal product or having worked with another internal system. This is not valuable to you, and as a student you should prefer pursuing things you benefit from.

Tips

Work where people can see you.

This is not exactly the same as 'working in public'. Working in public is working entirely on public projects, while working where people can see you is working in spaces where your work will be seen, recommended and commended.

Work on places and projects with above-average visibility. You'll be most likely to be hired and more likely to be noticed.
Don't necessarily optimize for 'sexy' projects; most engineering work isn't 'sexy'. Optimize for impact and optimize for visibility.

If you cannot gain exposure at your day job, network actively to gain exposure outside of it. Talk about things you create and show them to people!
'Stack the bricks'.The individual who has accumulated an impressive appearance is really one day at a conference talk, one day writing a good library and another writing a blog post. "Brick by brick, the wall gets higher."

Work on things you can keep

You rarely get to keep ours, bank them in the future, etc. Widespread employee ownership of the enterprice is an excellent improvement, but the work you produce concretely matters more than the shares and stakes you hold.

Buying side projects with sweat equity may give you future financial benefits, and there are real benefits to having an object that is yours to curate. Make a standalone web prescence for open source libraries to give others a stake in them.

Consumption can be valuable but creation moves you forward

Reading is valuable, but actually shipping something is so much more valuable. "You'll learn so much more shipping a failure than you'll learn from reading about a thousand successes. And you stand an excellent chance of shipping a success — people greatly overestimate how difficult it is. Just don't end the week with nothing."

Takeaways

Continue to ask myself whether my contributions are valuable, whether they are noticed, and whether they could be touched by others.

📜 File public.md by @agora@botsin.space ☆ 📎 ⛶

📜 File public.md by @an_agora@twitter.com ☆ 📎 ⛶

[[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1525548230808850433

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📚 Agora node [[20210302140300 french_third_republic]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File 20210302140300-french_third_republic.org by @ryan ☆ 📎

📚 Agora node [[20210520201930 bremen_soviet_republic]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File 20210520201930-bremen_soviet_republic.org by @ryan ☆ 📎

📚 Agora node [[20210606102824 people_s_republic]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File 20210606102824-people_s_republic.org by @ryan ☆ 📎

📚 Agora node [[beinginpublic]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File BeingInPublic.md by @agora@botsin.space ☆ 📎

[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109474218543739185

📜 File BeingInPublic.md by @an_agora@twitter.com ☆ 📎

[[2022-12-07 20:22:14+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1600586504908247041

📜 File BeingInPublic.md by @flancian@social.coop ☆ 📎

[[2022-12-07 20:13:28+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109474218543739185:
- #WorkingInPublic, #BeingInPublic

📜 File BeingInPublic.md by @flancian@twitter.com ☆ 📎

[[2022-12-07 20:22:14+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1600586504908247041

#WorkingInPublic, #BeingInPublic

📚 Agora node [[debugging my brain in public]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File debugging my brain in public.md by @an_agora@twitter.com ☆ 📎

[[evan_just_evan]] https://twitter.com/evan_just_evan/status/1486595847165026304

📚 Agora node [[filter to public]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File filter to public.md by @anagora@matrix.org ☆ 📎

[[2022-08-21 21:01:43]] [[@vera:fairydust.space]] (link):
- I [[filter to public]]

📚 Agora node [[learning in public]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File learning-in-public.md by @neil ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

learning in public§

📜 File learning in public.md by @agora@botsin.space ☆ 📎

[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/113210889204111079

📜 File learning in public.md by @flancian@social.coop ☆ 📎

[[2024-09-27 18:17:57+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- [[Taking refuge]] in German, or [[Zuflucht nehmen]]; in the spirit of [[learning in public]].
  “Bis zur [[Erleuchtung]] nehme ich Zuflucht
  zu Buddha, Dharma und Sangha, den höchsten der Gemeinschaft.
  Möge ich durch die [[Verdienste]] der Praxis von [[Freigebigkeit]] und der andered befreinden Qualitäten (Paramitas)
  zum Wohle der [[Wesen]] Buddhaschaft verwirklichen.”

📚 Agora node [[living in public]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File living in public.md by @agora@botsin.space ☆ 📎

[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109474216771599087

📜 File living in public.md by @an_agora@twitter.com ☆ 📎

[[2022-12-07 20:22:14+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1600586502320406530

📜 File living in public.md by @flancian@social.coop ☆ 📎

[[2022-12-07 20:13:01+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109474216771599087:
- #flancia, for me, is [[living in public]] as much as I can

📜 File living in public.md by @flancian@twitter.com ☆ 📎

[[2022-12-07 20:22:14+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1600586502320406530

#flancia, for me, is [[living in public]] as much as I can https://t.co/qsqlbHTGrl

📚 Agora node [[republic]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File republic.md by @flancian ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

Republic§

📚 Agora node [[semi public]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File semi public.md by @flancian ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

#pull [[liminal space]]

📚 Agora node [[trans in public]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File trans in public.md by @vera ☆ 📎

I’m at the park with my daughter and i feel so othered. I feel like a second class citizen. constantly worried that someone will judge me for my existence.
everywhere public is like this. the grocery store. going for a walk. most things.
a constant state of hyper vigilance
it’s subtle. physically I look fine. internally I worry for my life
I constantly worry my kid is gonna make a scene and jeopardize my life
I constantly worry my kid will out me and I fear for my life
it limits my capacity to parent and I am saddened by this
I worry my coparent doesn’t understand

📚 Agora node [[work in public]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File work in public.md by @flancian ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

work in public§

I am a firm believer in [[working in public]].
- [[pull]] [[flancia collective]]

📜 File work in public.md by @agora@botsin.space ☆ 📎

[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/110170382041924661

📜 File work in public.md by @an_agora@twitter.com ☆ 📎

[[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1462497510266748937

📜 File work in public.md by @anagora@matrix.org ☆ 📎

[[2022-11-18 22:03:20]] [[@flancian:matrix.org]] (link):
- at the same time I’ll be trying to finish containerizing the [[agora]], my personal project. if you are interested in following along, I plan to [[work in public]].

📚 Agora node [[working in public]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File working in public.md by @flancian ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

Working in Public§

a [[book]]
- by [[nayafia]]
  - https://twitter.com/nayafia/status/1273304859387719680
- [[subtitle]] "the making and maintenance of [[open source]] software"
- [[go]] https://www.amazon.com/Working-Public-Making-Maintenance-Software/dp/0578675862
- [[club]] https://lu.ma/t2rcivwh

Notes§

Introduction§

"until recently, information was good, and more information was better."
there is a [[disconnect]] between how we think open source works and "what is actually happening on the ground today".
- most succesful projects have very few core contributors; many have only one, the maintainer
- "in more than 85% of the open source projects the researchers examined on [[github]], less than 5% of developers were responsible for over 95% of code and social interactions"
- i.e. the [[1% rule]] or 90-9-1 rule applies to open source
"over the last twenty years, open sourc einexplicably skewed from a collaborative to a solo endeavor"
- "open source helps us understand why our online world didn’t avolve the way that early scholars predicted"
- "if creators, rather than communities, are poised to bcome the epicenters of our online social systems, we need a much better understanding of how they work"

Part 1: How people make§

1. Github as a platform§

An aside: this chapter reads a bit like a [[github]] commercial and I’m not sure I like that.
GNU and the [[free software]] movement are mentioned relatively in passing.
But overall this chapter read as a dismissal of past movements; I have to admit I ended up with the feeling she was selling them short.
- "[[Hackers]] are characterized by bravado, showmanship, misechievousness, and a deep mistrust of authority. Hacker culture still lives on today, in the way that beatniks, hippies, and Marxists still exist, but hackers don’t capture the software cultural zeitgeist in the same way they used to."
She follows [[steven levy]].
She lists [[rms]], [[esr]], [[linux torvalds]] in the same paragraph. She dedicates two paragraphs to expanding on each.
- Personally I don’t think [[esr]] is on the same level as the other two, although I respect him. I think he probably would agree?
- She mentions [[sex tips for geeks]], which I think just painted a blurred picture.

2. The structure of an open source project§

3. Roles, incentives, and relationships§

Part 2: How people maintain§

4. The work required by software§

5. Managing the costs of production§

Conclusion§

Credits§

Notes§

📜 File working-in-public.md by @neil ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

Working in public§

A concept I guess, but mainly [[Nadia Eghbal]]‘s book, on the topics of [[free software governance]] and [[Free software economics]].

Reviews§

Working in public

📜 File working-in-public.md by @vera.wiki.anagora.org ☆ 📎

[https://1lib.us/dl/11775129/7c54b5 book]

📜 File working in public.md by @agora@botsin.space ☆ 📎

📜 File Working in Public.md by @agora@botsin.space ☆ 📎

📜 File working in public.md by @an_agora@twitter.com ☆ 📎

📜 File working in public.md by @anagora.bsky.social ☆ 📎

[[flancia.org]]: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xu4fhdxwmrptiwfvq5ymbkxx/post/3kigc4r3mw62b

📜 File working in public.md by @anagora@matrix.org ☆ 📎

[[2022-05-21 17:44:41]] [[@flancian:matrix.org]] (link):
- I’m [[working in public]] in https://meet.jit.si/huggingpuppy
[[2022-08-21 12:35:30]] [[@charismatic_shell:matrix.org]] (link):
- [[working in public]] is an interesting model
[[2022-10-08 19:54:30]] [[@flancian:matrix.org]] (link):
- I like that definition a lot! thank you. yes, [[Agora meet]] seems more [[working in public]] oriented based on previous instances.
[[2023-06-07 17:50:24]] [[@flancian:matrix.org]] (link):
- I lied, the poem is not #13 syllables, but rather #15 — I counted words in the first line :) Flancia is about [[working in public]] ;)

📜 File working in public.md by @flancian@social.coop ☆ 📎

[[2022-11-19 21:14:02+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109372535084165318:
- [[working in public]]
  [[2022-11-19]] :)

📜 File Working in Public.md by @flancian@social.coop ☆ 📎

[[2023-02-21 21:58:28+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- #Flancia is [[Creative Commons]] and an exercise of [[Working in Public]].
  Here, an application of what I call #Protopoi, being an operation of incremental improvement, in this case some cleanup and updates for the rolling calendar.

📜 File working in public.md by @flancian@twitter.com ☆ 📎

[[2022-11-05 15:09:48+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1588911464030822400

Number 2. plus the existing Wikipedia autopulling in empty nodes makes it so that the Agora defaults to an OK-ish ‘note taking experience’ for empty nodes, as long as the user is OK to be anonymous.

[[working in public]] :) https://t.co/TFuZbvdf5y