Experimenting in public is good. We are not inventing electricity these days. We’re mostly buidling human systems and architecting society today.
The biggest variable in these experiments is people. You cannot model that in a lab or in an equation.
But we still need the iterate faster. And collaborate with folks who are on the same mission.
That is why it is important to experiment in public. This brings the fellow scientists/philosophers/tooling providers out of the woods + can be iterated well.
Things that are critical here:
– messaging should be right. Every word matters. The biggest reason to experiment in public is to find people who can collaborate
– no one should lose money or a significant amount of time without explicitly knowing the downside of this experiment
As long as these things are okay, experimenting in public will be good for human progress.
Failure in public would be even better.
On another note, no person who:
– is insecure about themselves
– has some hidden agenda
– wants unjustified upside
can experiment in public.
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It will truly separate those with and without courage.