It is widely known that the best way to learn is to teach. To teach you need to know, and to know you need to learn.
The term “teaching” indicates a performance to an external audience, but what about teaching your past (or future) self? That isn’t a performance.
But even if it isn’t a performance for others, why not expose it to others anyway. Then the opportunity to do performative teaching arises naturally from the interactions from genuinely interested people.
My method for learning in pubic is my Garage (others call it Digital gardening). The main vehicle is writing. There is also, podcasting (voice), streaming (voice + visual), and social network (writing + visual).
- Using the term social “network” instead of “media” is purposeful. A social network sits between brain and performance, while social media syndicates performance.
Another way to think about it is to Write notes for yourself by default, disregarding audience (by Andy Matuschak).
Continuing the theme of the Garage and Working with my garage door up, I like the term Learning exhaust to describe learning in public.
Realizing I need to create a My definitions page for terms I use that have specific meaning to me that is not immediately clear to others or future me