I tried something today that was weirdly effective: I worked in public… in private. I started a thread in a public Slack channel and kept updating it with loose thoughts, references, screenshots of work in progress, and little Loom videos covering some concept or prior art or whatever. It was fun to share and bring people along, but it was also super useful personally. It helped to keep me on task, externalized my thinking, and gave me some light social pressure.
I’ve always liked the idea of working in public, which is why I own workinginpublic.com. I haven’t done anything with the domain yet, and I’m not sure what I will do with it, but I just like the idea. There’s something so great about getting to see how people think, and getting an insight into their beautiful messy process (because let’s face it, we all have a pretty messy process). Starting in a space that was a bit (or a lot) more private helped, I think.