Summary: Austin Kleon’s book didn’t teach me anything new. It just gave me permission to trust what I was already doing. Here’s what changed when I stopped chasing perfect products and started documenting the messy process.
Permission to Trust My Instincts I just finished reading “Show Your Work!” by Austin Kleon, and it did something strange: it didn’t change my mind about anything. Instead, it gave me language for instincts I’d been following blindly. I was already writing blogs. Building things like Ashes, Monkeybar, and Argon and putting them out there. Sharing half-formed thoughts because it felt like the right way to think and work. The book just gave structure to that instinct`. It reassured me that putting …