Making All My Notes Public 🤦‍♂️ - Issue #14

Hi y'all 👋

Learning of the week: You can send your ethernet signal through your electricity outlets 🤯

I ordered two of those plug/ethernet bad boys to get rid of my latency issue with my WiFi router.

Shoutout to K for the recommendation 🙌

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Topics this week:

🤦‍♂️ Making all my notes public

🤷‍♂️ Why I quit my sabbatical after 4 weeks

📚 How to publish your first book // h/t @julietrelstad @fostercowriting

🏝 The Remote conference you shouldn't miss #REMOTEbyGitLab

You Can Access All My Notes (All of Them) 🤦‍♂️

Open Source projects share their code for free.

Why?

Content is cheap. Implementation is expensive.

I think the same can work for online education.

Completion rates of self-paced courses are super low (~3-6%).

On the other hand facilitation can move the needle for students.

As a course creator you are building a curriculum:

• 🔍 Researching topics
• 📊 Finding examples
• 📝 Synthesizing learnings

I am storing all of this information in a structured Notion page.

As of today I started giving it away for free👇

🏝 Remote

Remote Workbook: An ever-expanding (and FREE) resource for remote leaders 🏝

For now it's an experiment. I hope it does not backfire 🤦‍♂️

In the coming weeks I will document my thinking and processes:

1. Break entire course content down into smaller topics
2. Organize topic-specific mini workshops
3. Prepare agenda based on participant need
4. Create shareable assets
5. Re-use assets for non-workshop distribution
6. Learn what works and improve content
7. Rinse & repeat

🤔 I'd love to connect if you have thoughts around this topic.

Why I Quit My Sabbatical: The Online Education Opportunity

A couple of friends have asked me a few questions over and over again:

• What are online courses?
• Why are YOU building courses?
• Was OnDeck Course Creators worth it?

Instead of answering it on a one-off basis I put it into a 10-minute blog post (with lots of images & tweets) 👇

Becoming an Online Course Creator: From Sabbatical to Teaching Online

This blog post explains how I went from enjoying my sabbatical to becoming an online course creator in the span of 4 months.

📚 How to Publish as an Indie Writer

On a totally random note: Next week I'm interviewing a seasoned author on the Foster Writing podcast.

I'm super excited.

Her name is Julie Trelstad and we'll talk about the 80/20 of publishing if you are an indie author.

Dreaming of publishing your first 📖?

Sign up and join us next week 👇

THE Remote Work Conference You Should Attend

Also... GitLab - the world's leading remote co - is hosting a free virtual conference about remote work.

I signed up already.

If it's of interest to you, check it out 👇

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🙏 Would love to hear from you. What's up on your end?

Stay happy, stay healthy 🙌

Art