“Working with the garage door up,” brings to mind a garage workshop where neighbors can drop in, watch your progress, use your tools, and learn something in the process. You may learn something as well.
Andy Matushack gets the idea from Robin Sloan, who talks about biking past the open door of a woodworking shop in an industrial complex, and feeling a sense of wonder looking at the machines, the neatly stacked materials and the organized process of fabrication.
Part of the problem of social media is that there is no equivalent to the scientific glassblowers’ sign, or the woodworker’s open door, or Dafna and Jesse’s sandwich boards. On the internet, if you stop speaking: you disappear. And, by corollary: on the internet, you only notice the people who are speaking nonstop.
Robin Sloan cited on Andy Matushack’s Work with the Garage Door Up
Also on Wild Rye
One way to show your work in public is to think about Your Blog as a Commonplace Book
This idea is similar to the idea of “Working Out Loud”, first popularized in very worthwhile blog post by Bryce Williams which I’ve summarized as Observable Work + Narrated Work = Working Out Loud.
