Share something small every day!

I was reading the awesome book "Show Your Work" for Austin Kleon, and ironically I decided to share some ideas with you!

Share something small every day!

Overnight success is a myth. Building a substantial body of work takes a long time—a lifetime, really—but thankfully, you don’t need that time all in one big chunk. So Focus on days.

Ze Frank was interviewing job candidates, he complained, “When I ask them to show me work, they show me things from school, or from another job, but I’m more interested in what they did last weekend.”

Share daily in any form (blog, post, video, tweet, etc)

you don't need to share on all platforms, Choose the most relevant social media to your career (video editors hang around on youtube or Vimeo, business people are on linked in, writers on Twitter!)?

don’t let sharing your work take precedence over actually doing your work. If you’re having a hard time balancing the two, just set a timer for 30 minutes.

Share, but don’t overshare! (share only what you want the whole world to see!)?

What to share??

Always be sure to run everything you share with others through The “So What?” Test. Don’t overthink it; just go with your gut. If you’re unsure about whether to share something, let it sit for 24 hours.

Ask yourself, “Is this helpful? Is it entertaining? Is it something I’d be comfortable with my boss or my mother seeing?”?

Flow VS Stock?

“If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.” —Kenneth Goldsmith?

“Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that remind people you exist. Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is today. It’s what people discover via search. It’s what spreads slowly but surely, building fans over time.” Robin Sloan.

Once you make sharing part of your daily routine, you’ll notice themes and trends emerging in what you share. You’ll find patterns in your flow, by focusing on these patterns, you can convert your flow into stock!

Build a good domain name!?

(social media platforms come and go, so invest in your website! And then share to social media.)?

Online, you can become the person you really want to be. Fill your website with your work and your ideas and the stuff you care about

It’s more of a long-term investment than a short term!?

Build a good domain name, keep it clean, and eventually, it will be its own currency. Whether people show up or they don’t, you’re out there, doing your thing, ready whenever they are

We all have our own treasured collections.

We all carry around the weird and wonderful things we’ve come across while doing our work and living our lives. These mental scrapbooks form our tastes, and our tastes influence our work.

There’s not as big of a difference between collecting and creating as you might think. A lot of the writers I know see the act of reading and the act of writing as existing on opposite ends of the same spectrum: The reading feeds the writing, which feeds the reading.

Your taste VS Your ability!

“All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste,” says public radio personality Ira Glass. “But there is this gap. For the first couple of years, you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer.”

Before we’re ready to take the leap of sharing our own work with the world, we can share our tastes in the work of others

Where do you get your inspiration? What sorts of things do you fill your head with? What do you read? Do you subscribe to anything? What sites do you visit on the Internet?

Do you look at art? What do you collect? What’s inside your scrapbook? Who do you steal ideas from? Do you have any heroes? Who do you follow online? Who are the practitioners you look up to in your field

Your influences are all worth sharing because they clue people into who you are and what you do—sometimes even more than your own work.

The trashman museum

About twenty years ago, a trashman in New York City named Nelson Molina started collecting little bits and pieces of art and unique objects that he found discarded along his route. His collection, The Trash Museum, is housed on the second floor of the Sanitation Department garage on East 99th Street, and it now features more than a thousand paintings, posters, photographs, musical instruments, toys, and other ephemera.

There isn’t a big unifying principle to the collection, just what Molina likes. He gets submissions from some of his fellow workers, but he says what goes on the wall and what doesn’t. “I tell the guys, just bring it in and I’ll decide if I can hang it.” At some point, Molina painted a sign for the museum that reads treasure in the trash by nelson Molina.?

More than 400 years ago, Michel de Montaigne, in his essay “On Experience,” wrote, “In my opinion, the most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles . . . and the most marvelous examples.”

When you find things you genuinely enjoy, don’t let anyone else make you feel bad about it. Don’t feel guilty about the pleasure you take in the things you enjoy. Celebrate them. When you share your taste and your influences, have the guts to own all of it. Don’t give in to the pressure to self-edit too much.

Being open and honest about what you like is the best way to connect with people who like those things, too.

Give credit!

Always give credit, never share without saying who made this, when and where, and link their work as well! ( or their website!)\

these were some takes from the chapter 3 and 4 from the book "show your work" for Austin Kleon as part of my daily reading.

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