The best career advice I ever got was three words: “Learn in public.”

What It Means

Document your learning process. Share what you’re figuring out, not just what you’ve mastered. Write the blog post you wish existed when you were stuck.

It feels uncomfortable. You’re exposing your ignorance. You’re putting half-formed thoughts out there for strangers to judge.

That’s exactly why it works.

The Compounding Effect

Every post, every tweet, every open-source contribution becomes a node in a network. People find you through Google. They share your stuff. They reach out.

My best job opportunities came from blog posts. Not my resume, not my LinkedIn—a random tutorial I wrote at 2am that happened to rank for the right keywords.

How to Start

Lower the bar dramatically. Your first posts will be rough. That’s fine. Ship anyway.

Pick a niche. “I’m learning React” is better than “I’m learning programming.” Specificity attracts the right people.

Respond to everyone. Early on, engagement is rare and precious. Every comment is a conversation waiting to happen.

The Fear

“But what if I’m wrong?”

You will be wrong. Publicly. It’s fine.

I’ve had to update or retract posts. Each time, someone reached out to correct me kindly. The internet is meaner in theory than in practice.

Being wrong in public and handling it gracefully builds more trust than being right quietly.

The Real Benefit

Learning in public forces clarity. You can’t explain something you don’t understand. The act of writing reveals the gaps in your knowledge.

Every blog post I write teaches me something—not because I research for it, but because writing is the research.

Start before you’re ready. That’s the whole point.