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Dave McCloskey's avatar

This also applies in "not as public" spaces like in a team at work. people with their imposter syndrome will work on stuff "in secret" and not want to show anyone their ideas until it's "done". but actually sharing early has a lot of benefits.

I wrote about this

https://dlmfk.substack.com/p/the-hidden-tax-on-secret-work

but I definitely find your thoughts here interesting applied more to the public sphere. It's interesting because for me, working at a place like Google, a lot of my earlier career I was one of the "keep it secret till it's perfect" guys because the people I'd have to share it with are Big Fancy Googlers™. Now, posting on Substack or YouTube I feel lot less anxiety about posting. It's hard to tell if that's from just getting over it, believing/knowing no one is going to see it anyway (since I'm just starting), or something else.

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Eurie Kim's avatar

Love everything about this reflection. Thanks for sharing and naming it all. That’s also why I just push the publish button when i feel there’s so much more I should do ….

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