Why I’m Learning in Public (And Why You Should Too)

This blog is my attempt to share my journey in AI & Data Science. I want to teach the lessons that I learn, and in this post I want to give my 3 reasons for doing this, so that you might consider doing it too.

The 3 Reasons You Should Start Writing Online

🍀 1. It Increases Your Luck

I believe that everyone has luck, but this does not mean that it is equally distributed.

In your 20s, success is inversely correlated with the time you spend at home.

The reason?

Being out and about gives you surface area to be lucky:

• Run into a person hiring for the role you want
• Meeting likeminded people that become friends
• Insightful conversations with strangers

So what am I trying to tell you? luck is by definition that which we can't control with skill or intention.

While you can't increase your luck, you can increase the amount of lottery tickets you buy. But how do you get more tickets?

By starting to share what you're learning online.

You're guaranteed to have experiences that could help someone else going through the same situation. In fact, people don't want to learn from experts, they want to learn from people who stumble and fail, people that are like them.

60% of jobs are made through contacts. Lots of your contacts depend on random meetings out when you're out and about. Posting what you learn online acts like a digital version of you, strolling around the internet and making acquaintances on its own.

🤖 2. It Future-proofs your Communication

Information is now a commodity item.

Everyone has access to expert level knowledge in 5 seconds from Google and GPT.

So what will be the differentiator in 1, 5 or 10 years?

Emotional connection.

When you post a stance or opinion online, you:

• Make people think
• Attract people who like what you say
• Repel people who you don't like what you say

This is automatic filtering done for you, at scale.

It also leverages your one advantage against AI: Opinions and experience.

While an AI can know everything, it has done nothing.

This means that while all the models, frameworks, and facts are available to everyone, what you learned while doing something is completely unique and new.

Share it, get better at saying what you mean and people just might find it helpful.

🏦 3. Develop your own idea bank

One of the most rewarding things with writing regularly is that I've done thinking "in advance".

When someone asks me a question that i've already written about, then my answers are guaranteed to be more well-spoken compared to topics that I haven't written about. The thinking has already been done, crystallized and put into words. All I have to do is to relay it again.

A great way of finding out what you should write about online is what people generally ask you about.

• Do you know a lot about gardening?
• Maybe you're an expert in python automations?
• Or just make great presentations

Then you can write about the things that you have learned, doing those things.

While I can't promise you that people will read it, I can promise you that it makes you better at that which you do.