What are the pros & cons of publishing your thoughts ?
The transparent society
Byung-Chul Han and the constant incentive to be transparent about one’s achievement.
Should we always strive to share our thoughts and achievements publicly?
The pros
Learning in public
Feedback machine
Learning in public enables quick feedbacks from the broader community. A super efficient mean to learn faster.
Forced accountability
Learning in public enables accountability towards your audience (when loyal). You feel committed to deliver (quality).
Impact is achieved by telling stories
Sustainability needs holistic stories
See also:
The human bugAudience as an asset for resilience
Having a loyal audience enables a sense of resilience.
The cons
The audience is always broader than the story
Your story will always fall flat in the ear of some readers. Misalignment could backlash in shape of harsh criticism.
Adding noise to noise
What makes you think that your story is adding some value to the world?
The ethics of storytelling
The good
- Publishing a story for yourself, because it feels good.
- Publishing the “same story” to a new generation of readers.
- Publishing the “same story” to underline the message to a broader audience.
The bad
- Adding a thought-piece to an already cluttered “public space”, adding to the general confusion.
The tight rope of genuine sharing
How to draw the line between genuinely sharing insights and building your personal brand.
Conclusion
Some storytellers don’t overthink it
You can be spontaneous about publishing stories.
See also:
Conscious SpontaneityPublishing stories as a duty
The publishing drivers
For others
- Publish to change minds, influence and convince about the urgency of the climate crisis.
- Publish to be generous.
For you
- Publish to structure your thoughts and learn in public.
- Publish to be spontaneous.
- Publish to increase your resilience.
What do you think?
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Stories