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Learning In Public As A Product

Learning In Public As A Product

I’m building a peer-to-peer app that uses AI prompts to guide Internal Family Systems sessions. Here I share each tiny experiment and lesson in plain view, inviting honest feedback as I go. The aim is to learn in public while staying clear-eyed and free from the doom-scroll.

Experiment: "You don't have to be right, just see for one month or maybe 2 weeks"

Priorities

What it is:

  • Integrated: learning in public
  • Part of my workflow
  • Community to practice IFS is the product, not me. What it is not:
  • Choosing between visibility and productivity, but both simultaneously Prioritiy above this:
  • Launching with two people using it found through 1:1 connection or finding existing IFS communities and sharing.
  • This is just to keep fostering human connection so it can flourish and maybe help more people.

Hypotheses:

Am I doing the above priorities or chasing likes? Am I still productive? Am I building with others and gathering feedback?

PACT

What is a PACT*

Post a video three times a week to youtube** for three weeks and review if you want to continue.

PACT* = In Tiny Experiments, Anne-Laure Le Cunff says a PACT is a self-designed promise to carry out one Purposeful, Actionable, Continuous and Trackable action for a fixed time—so you learn through tiny experiments rather than chase distant goals. So Brief (opens in a new tab)

** Youtube:

  • Evergreen reach: videos keep surfacing through search and recommendations for months, so each upload compounds instead of expiring after two days.
  • Deeper feedback: threaded, timestamped comments invite thoughtful discussion—ideal for nuanced IFS topics.
  • Low-distraction setup: schedule uploads in YouTube Studio, answer comments in a weekly block, and skip the home-feed entirely.
  • Room to grow: Community posts, playlists and live streams sit on the same channel, giving you future options without adding new apps.

Process Documentation and Scratchpad

Format for videos:

  • What I did
  • Why
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • Next

Script

  • Write a basic script
  • See video-scripts

Content and Visuals

Record

  • On Descript
  • Use good mic
  • Make sure at high resolution
  • Make sure you have the correct framing for youtube

Edit

Title and Description

  • Gernerate in ChatGPT or Descript

Thumbnail

Upload

  • To Youtube via Descript
  • Add thumbnail in youtube
  • Publish

Optional short form:

Not sure this is worth it!

Setup

  • Take transcript from descript

Package for short-form

  • Take long form video
  • Copy it in descript and then edit the layout to mobile

b-roll creation

  • Take transcripts of short-forms
  • Transcript to o3 and create b-roll prompts
  • Prompt b-roll in Soras

short form edit

  • Add captions
  • Add b-roll
  • Upload to instagram (stealth for now)

Review

See above to do Positive, Negative and Next and answer your hypotheses.

Later

  • Put long-form video or shorts in substack and share to email subscribers

Future idea

  • If you keep doing the above, automate:
    • Human following the docs
    • Create it as a tool - the outcome would be that you upload your video you recorded, the tool does the rest right through to publishing.
  • In both human and tool could be something you sell
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