How to #LearnInPublic?

What is #LearningInPublic? 📚

Hello there lovely makers! ✨

We all have some knowledge and experience related to various themes, so why keep it to ourselves when we can share it with others and learn from other people as well.

Learning in public allows you to break the ice and get rid of fears of not knowing enough and open yourself up to get feedback from your colleagues and experts who come across your projects

Sharing your works with others, even if it is your hobby, side project, random facts, or tips and tricks you’ve come across is learning in public.

In doing so, everyone can learn from your journey, and we motivate and help each other out. This also improves our own work habits through the engagement we create with others.

Our community member @Kroum had some constructive articles about Learning and Building in Public so we wanted to share his point of view, also check out his articles here.

Learning in public is all about:

• Opening up your learning and work progress to the online community

• Receiving feedback from peers and experts as you progress

• Sharing anything you like from side projects, to hobbies, even tips and tricks and getting valuable insights

• Changing your habits and getting encouraged to keep going from a community that backs you!

How to learn in public? ✏️

Firstly, you need to find a suiting platform for your preferences. This can be anything from social media favorites like Twitter or YouTube, or since you’re here, use our BOLT.FUN Stories platform as the perfect place to learn in public. Regardless of your preference, start with one or two platforms that you enjoy and then expand from there.

If you’re using an existing platform, you can either start a new blog or contribute to an existing community. If you’re creating your own platform, make sure you create a compelling proposition for people to join your community. Once you’ve decided on a platform, start by sharing your ideas, works in progress, and what you’re learning along the way.

Learn in public with BOLT.FUN 💬

You might already be asking yourself what are some advantages of using a platform like BOLT.FUN compared to social medias that are huge like Twitter. For starters, Twitter has too much noise. As with any mega enterprise, Twitter lack lacks the personal element. Therefore, what makes our platform unique is that:

• We are building a social network for makers with bitcoin principals of sovereign ownership baked into it

• We experiment with new technologies that give you ownership of your data (like Nostr based comment section)

BOLT.FUN is the space where makers, designers and developers can find and receive useful information about building. Besides the hackathons that are known for being a great way to interact with others, so is our Stories feature with the enabled Comments section.

We built the comments feature to give the community the chance to practice #LearninginPublic. Our goal is for the makers to engage in the exchange of useful information and feedback on Stories posts. The aim is to open up discussions that will help and inspire makers.