Show Your Work

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“Give what you have to someone, it may be better than you dare to think.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Always be an amateur

  • Don’t be content with mastery, always be a student
  • Find your voice
  • Learn to take a punch and accept criticism
  • Shut up and listen.
  • Be a connector
  • Whatever excites you, go do it

Share something small every day

  • Share the work and the process
  • Tell good stories
  • Teach what you know
  • Share your trade secrets
  • Contributing something is better than contributing nothing
  • Ask, “So what?” before sharing
  • Don’t overshare

Become a documentation of what you do

  • Start a journal
  • Blog
  • Keep your notes

Credit is always due so give attribution

  • What is it?
  • Who made it?
  • When?
  • Why should we care?
  • How you found it?
  • Where we can find more things like it?

The stories you tell about the work you do have a huge effect on how people feel and what they understand about your work. This affects how they value it.

“To fake a photograph all you have to do is change the caption.” Errol Morris