field notes
Thinking in Public
The practice of sharing unfinished thoughts openly.
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There’s value in sharing ideas before they’re fully formed. It invites collaboration, surfaces blind spots, and creates accountability to develop thoughts further.
The digital garden model encourages this, as I describe in my own experience building one by making the maturity of each piece visible. Readers know when something is a draft versus a finished argument.
This is the opposite of the traditional academic model, where ideas are only shared after extensive peer review.