Private vs. Public
Let's explore the differences between public and private learning.
There are many principles offered in this Coding Career Handbook, but the most important one is: Learn in Public.
Learning in private
You have been trained your entire life to learn in private. You go to school. You do your homework. You get grades. And you keep what you learned to yourself.
Success is doing this better than everyone else around you, over and over again. It is a constant, lonely, zero-sum race to get the best grades. To get into the best colleges. To get the best jobs. If you’ve had a prior career, the chances are that all your work was confidential. And of COURSE, you don’t share secrets with competitors!
Tech is a fundamentally more open industry. We write blogs about our outages. We get on stage to share our technical achievements. We even give away our code in open source.