Show Your Work!

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• tedmiston · Dec 21, 2015 · Recommends

  Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon It's a short book with a bias toward action that's changed how I interact with my work and share it with others. Key takeaways: - good work doesn't market or promote itself [writing…

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• gershwin · Apr 13, 2015 · Recommends

  Awesome. I've been inspired by Austin Kleon's Show Your Work! to find more ways to share our creative output and process with a wider community

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• dbalan · Dec 23, 2015 · Recommends

  …talks about the intricacies and surprising observations about how me take decisions. "Logicomix" - A brief "history" of logic, its not always historically accurate. Did I tell you its a graphic novel? "Show Your work" - Aston Kleon - A short motivating read about sharing ones work, he makes some good arguments for sharing the process as well, not just the product. Picked up "Coders at work" - read two chapters, a…

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• tomek_zemla · May 20, 2020 · Recommends

  Austin Kleon wrote a great book "Show Your Work!" discussing this approach of sharing, communicating and exchanging creative ideas. He frames the problem in a similar fashion and brings all kinds of nuanced aspects of the issue into the discussion.

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• Kerrick · Dec 26, 2025 · Mentions

  …to see how much of my anger and frustration in life was a coping mechanism to help me get things done. I've had a much calmer life since recognizing that. Austin Kleon's trilogy: Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work, Keep Going. These books were cute, full of incredibly quotable passages, and fun to read. I didn't spend enough time on them, though. A lot of the lessons I thought I'd learned left my brain like water…

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• ArcMex · Dec 19, 2022 · Mentions

  …Zero to One by Peter Thiel - How to Start a Business Without any Money by Rachel Bridge - Creative Gene by Hideo Kojima - Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson - The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel - Show Your Work, Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon - Press Reset by Jason Schreier I would say Deep Work and Steve Jobs had the biggest impact on me. Programming I am learning Elixir using Elixir In Action by…

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• tedmiston · Sep 20, 2015 · Mentions

  Cool idea. I signed up. Also, I think you could add a sample bio to the site to boost your conversion rate. Austin Kleon (the author of Steal Like an Artist, and Show Your Work!) talks about reading obituaries every morning as a tool to help clarify priorities and to remind yourself that interesting people often led non-linear lives. https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/12/austin-kleon-show-y...

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• tedmiston · Jul 15, 2016 · Mentions

  …one file for each book / article / lecture. The material I cover is mostly about tech or entrepreneurship. https://github.com/tedmiston/notes Here are a couple of the most complete pages in it: - Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon - https://github.com/tedmiston/notes/blob/master/books/Show%20... - Zero to One by Peter Thiel - https://github.com/tedmiston/notes/blob/master/books/Zero%20... - Startup School Radio…

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• WHA8m · May 12, 2022 · Mentions

  …Dillard (in Kleons 'Keep Going') "Share your dots, but don't connect them." - Austin Kleon (in 'Steal Like An Artist') "Whatever we say, we're always talking about ourselves." - Alison Bechdel (in Kleons 'Show Your Work')

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