A beginner's guide to being wrong faster

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Step one: write it down where other people can see it.

Step two: be wrong in front of them.

Step three: there is no step three. That’s the whole method. It’s very efficient and slightly mortifying.

The idea behind learning in public is that a half-understood thing, written down clearly, teaches you more than a half-understood thing left to rot in a browser tab. (I have a lot of browser tabs. They are not learning anything.)

Some ground rules for this notebook:

• Say what I tried. Even when it didn’t work. Especially when it didn’t work.
• Say what I still don’t get. There’s a lot of this. Plenty to go round.
• Change my mind out loud. Old posts get an update note rather than a quiet edit and a straight face.

If you spot a mistake, you’re probably right. Be kind about it. I’m a human, mostly.

AI up me duck