Show Your Process: Insights from "Show Your Work" by Austin Kleon

Hello Curious Minds,

In this week's edition of Curiosity Logs, we're diving into the creative wisdom of "Show Your Work" by Austin Kleon, with a focus on sharing your process.

Join me as I highlight snippets on the importance of showing how you build, create, and develop your ideas.

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Whether you're an artist, entrepreneur, or anyone looking to share their journey, these insights will inspire you to be more open with your process and connect with your audience in a deeper way. Let’s explore the power of sharing together!

Here is 13 quotes on how to build online and how to build on public.

1. “A lot of people are so used to just seeing the outcome of work. They never see the side of the work you go through to produce the outcome.” —Michael Jackson [pg13 185-187]

2. But human beings are interested in other human beings and what other human beings do. 

3. “People really do want to see how the sausage gets made.” 

4. “By putting things out there, consistently, you can form a relationship with your customers. It allows them to see the person behind the products.” 

5. sharing your process might actually be most valuable if the products of your work aren’t easily shared, if you’re still in the apprentice stage of your work, if you can’t just slap up a portfolio and call it a day, 

6. “No one is going to give a damn about your résumé; they want to see what you have made with your own little fingers.” 

7. “Put yourself, and your work, out there every day, and you’ll start meeting some amazing people.” —Bobby Solomon 

8. “The Internet is a copy machine,” writes author Kevin Kelly. “Once anything that can be copied is brought into contact with the Internet, it will be copied, and those copies never leave.” Ideally, you want the work you post online to be copied and spread to every corner 

9. “If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.” —Kenneth Goldsmith

10. If you’re really interested in sharing your work and expressing yourself, nothing beats owning your own space online, a place that you control, a place that no one can take away from you, a world headquarters where people can always find you. 

11. One little blog post is nothing on its own, but publish a thousand blog posts over a decade, and it turns into your life’s work. 

12. Don’t think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. Online, you can become the person you really want to be. Fill your website with your work and your ideas and the stuff you care about. 

13. “Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work . . . and if you can build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.”

P.S. I’d love to know: What is the single snippet above that sounds most interesting or impactful to you?

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