Introduction: Pick Up What They Put Down

Discover how to start learning in public by engaging with creators who share new content in your field. Learn to pick up and interact with their latest work—libraries, blogs, courses, and more—to deepen your understanding and create your own outputs. This lesson guides you to build genuine interest and meaningful connections for your coding career growth.

We'll cover the following...

- Learning in public is hard to start
- What is picking up what they put down?
- - Who’s “they”?
- - What do you mean by “put down”?
  - How do I pick “it” up?
- Love the thing you pick up

Learning in public is hard to start

Let’s say you’re sold on the idea of learning in public. You want to start right away but are feeling intimidated at all the advice out there:

"Just start a blog for the past you!" but you’ve done that before – no one read it, and you lost interest.
"Ask people what they want to read!" but you don’t have people to ask. Plus, people always say yes to free content anyway— which you write, and then they don’t read. So, you lose interest.
"Don’t worry, it takes a while to get an audience!" but all ...