---
id: "action-work-in-public"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["00:15:00", "00:15:42"]
tags: ["networking", "career-strategy", "open-source"]
related: ["framework-5-principles-ai-era", "concept-micro-job-transactions", "entity-talentboard", "entity-github"]
speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
action: "Share your AI projects, code, and explanation artifacts in public forums to build a visible track record."
outcome: "Creates a public ledger of your 'taste' and comprehension, protecting you against layoffs and opaque hiring filters."
sources: ["s14-job-market-reality"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s14-job-market-reality"
originDay: 14
---
# Move Your Experimentation to Public Forums

## Action

Share your AI projects, code, and [[concept-explanation-artifact]]s in public forums to build a visible track record.

## Stop doing

- Building skills in private repositories only.
- Hiding your learning behind closed corporate doors.
- Treating your work as proprietary by default.

## Start doing

- Push to [[entity-github-d14]] *with* an explanation artifact attached.
- Write Substack posts about your trade-off thinking.
- Build profiles on platforms like [[entity-talentboard]] that demand 'proof of thought.'
- Publicly post-mortem your own architectural decisions.

## Why

Because traditional signaling is broken (see [[claim-traditional-signaling-broken]]), you must allow the market to **observe your taste and comprehension in real-time**. This is the substrate of [[concept-micro-job-transactions]].

## Strategic framing

Principle #4 of [[framework-5-principles-ai-era]].

## Outcome

Creates a public ledger of your [[concept-taste]] and comprehension, protecting you against layoffs (cf. [[claim-tech-layoffs-accelerating]]) and opaque hiring filters.