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+- 2024-02-17 at 16h59 · [[Introduction]]
 - 2024-01-26 at 13h52 · [[README]]
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+![Chapter 1. The case for doing it in public](content/index.md#Chapter%201.%20The%20case%20for%20doing%20it%20in%20public)
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 ### My story
 
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-That's the magic of doing it in public.
+Through learning in public, I've been able to learn how to:
+
+- [speak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdgu2gutp7o&list=PLDGkOdUX1UjoZvjegDEDFmn0LQGtpu9sn) [Spanish](https://nicolevanderhoeven.com/blog/20220421-que-es-k6/) [to a professional](https://nicolevanderhoeven.com/blog/20201216-cuando-jmeter-no-alcanza/) level despite [never having lived](https://nicolevanderhoeven.com/blog/20180828-mitad-de-alla/) in a [Spanish speaking country](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFYAuu16Pg0)
+- [use new load testing tools](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcYeboT5FYE&list=PLJdv3RhAQXNHsC8OOV3ZjwZvC9tRoAYF2) and write scripts in them in one week
+- [make and edit videos](https://youtube.com/@luckydippers) that sucked, and then gradually sucked less and less
+- become a Senior Developer Advocate without ever having been a developer
+- go from not knowing what chaos engineering is, to running experiments - and speaking about it
+- speak publicly at conferences
+- adapt when my company was acquired, by rapidly learning the acquiring company's stack of tools
+- jump into the highly technical field of software performance engineering, without ever having taken a computer science course
+- speak the language of countries I visit, to a casual conversation level, in a month or less
+- play and run new tabletop roleplaying game systems
+- create a successful course in two weeks
+- play new musical instruments like the kalimba, ocarina, and ukulele
+- figure skate competitively
+- ride a bike at age 29, and then do a 50km ride ride three months later
+- go from drowning in debt to becoming financially independent in five years
+
+... all before I felt I was ready. And I accomplished these things while having fun and making genuine connections with kind people.
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+That's the magic of doing it in public. In this book, you'll learn how to use this magic, too.
 
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@@ -19,8 +19,11 @@ There are three ways you can get updates about new chapters for review:
 - Sign up for my newsletter, [Thinking in Public](https://tip.nicolevanderhoeven.com). I'll mention available chapters for review there.
 - Check [Changelog](Changelog.md) here for updates.
 
-## Outline
+In the spirit of learning in public, here's a talk I did at the [PKM Summit 2024](https://pkmsummit.com) where I discussed some of the topics of this book as a way to get early feedback:
+
+![](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-uNtkre1aE)
 
+## Outline
 ### [[Introduction]]
 - What is learning in public?
 - Why should you learn in public?