Why publish your personal project?

Interesting discussion point, I’ll write about it later.

• Why use /takker/public-private-project?

I felt like I wouldn’t write if I said “I’ll write later,” so I’m going to write a bit of a mess.

• There are many different “reasons to do it,” but none of them are “strong enough reasons to say ‘you should do it’ about everyone.”
• I think the “doing” is pre-existing, and the reason for doing it is being created after the fact.

So I write this page not for the purpose of telling others why they should do it, but to help me understand myself.

• Appeal that you are not slacking off

  • I don’t have this feeling.

• Throw a URL and we can share it.

  • This is strong.
  • In some cases, they’re using it as a way to write a coherent amount of text and share it with others via URL.
    • Example: https://twitter.com/nishio/status/1410449216397185025?s=21
    • But not all.
    • Some pages post their URLs to Twitter and Facebook after writing them, but not all.
  • I had something I wrote in a private project that was not mine alone that I wanted to share with others who were not there, and the system is running with automatic reprints to the public project once a day, but the most recent thing I wrote is not on the public side.
    • I gave up sharing the latest because it was too much trouble, but ideally I would have liked to be able to share it instantly.
    • The main reason I don’t think Scrapbox private to public transfer will meet my needs?
    • If it’s one page, can I just reprint it myself in PUBLIC?
      • If it’s a situation where you’re going to share it immediately with others, it’s still okay because the target is usually one page.
      • Generally, I’ll give you a number of pages of what I’m thinking about.
    • I get feedback on what I SHARE, and I have to make many additions and corrections.
      • It is tedious to repeatedly write in PRIVATE and reprint in PUBLIC
      • I’m going to make the mistake of editing public because it’s a hassle and forgetting to reflect it in private.

• I can look back at my writing and improve it. - Social Triggers gives us an opportunity to read back

  • You could write it down in a paper diary and look back at it every day for the last six months.
    • There’s even a diary where the decade is on a single page.
    • I find it useful to compare my previous and current thinking and see what has changed and what has not
  • I’m not bean enough to keep a journal every day.
    • I don’t even read it seriously and consistently.
    • I’d like some kind of read-back trigger for people like that.
    • A “past mention in an article” is a signal that the article remains worth mentioning over time.
    • The other This Day in the Past” on Facebook feature is also worthwhile as a trigger

• I can receive stimuli that are out of my intended range.

• Date last visited to find pages that may be of value to others.

  • [/rashitamemo/Scrapbox allows others to “koo” the cards](https://scrapbox.io/rashitamemo/Scrapbox allows others to “koo” the cards).
  • I’ve never done this, I’ll give it a try, but so far I’m not too moved by it.
    • This is a “get more social triggers” approach, and “see” is easier to gather information than “mention” because the hurdle for action is lower.
    • I’m not really interested in that information.
    • “What value is there in information that is viewed by an unspecified person with no output?”
    • This depends on the situation.
      • If your job is to write books for the general public, it is useful to know what an unspecified number of people who do not output
      • It’s information that is hard to obtain because it’s not output, and it’s valuable to get it.

Be aware of your writing

• I haven’t thought about this.

• It’s a place to dump around what comes into your brain, not a place you want others to see.

• Sometimes I get my sentences in order, sometimes I don’t.
  • [Future self is a stranger, so I’ll get what I want my future self to read.
  • For example, giving a page a decent title means you want your future self to read it.
  • Specifically with this project, the “Nodes of Thought” series is an example of “not a proper title”
    • I don’t need to read it to know, but I write down the keywords that seem to be related or important, like for example, I was chatting with people that day and various topics came up.

What came out over time - Fear of being lost What came out further in time - Publish to protect your freedom to implement your ideas. What came out over a year later

• from [/villagepump/Scrapbox text may be readable to LLM](https://scrapbox.io/villagepump/Scrapbox text may be readable to LLM).
  • I suddenly remembered that the reason why I started writing my lessons learned and thoughts in a public forum is because when I was a college student Google search appears, I became “a ‘smart search’ if I put it in a public forum”…
    • Back then, you still couldn’t do a smart search if you remained private.
    • I wrote a series of articles to remind myself of what I had done in the past.

relevance - Public or private projects? - Why go public?

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