Lesson 834 of 2116
Setting Up a Public AI-Experiment Journal
A two-line-per-week journal that runs for six months becomes a credibility moat no degree can match. Here's the format and the discipline.
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What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1Why this beats a course certificate
- 2learning in public
- 3consistency
- 4credibility
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Section 1
Why this beats a course certificate
A course certificate says you took a class. Six months of dated, weekly entries showing what you tried, what broke, and what you learned says you have a habit. In a hiring decision, the second one wins, especially for pivoters.
The format
- 1Pick one platform: a public Notion, Substack, dev.to, or a single Google Doc with a public share link.
- 2Title it something honest like 'AI experiments — [your name]' rather than something cute.
- 3Commit to one entry per week for 26 weeks. Twenty-six is the magic number — three months feels short, six months feels like a habit.
- 4Link to it from your LinkedIn About. Don't bury it.
What counts as an entry
- 'Wrote a Claude prompt to summarize quarterly board reports. First version too verbose. Cut to 200 words by adding a length constraint and 3 examples. Saved ~40 min on this task.'
- 'Tried NotebookLM on 14 of my old industry research PDFs. Surprised it caught a contradiction between two reports I'd missed. Will use this for client-facing prep.'
- 'Built a Zapier flow for inbound LinkedIn DMs to flag the ones from real people. Broke when LinkedIn changed something. Sent it to a friend who fixed it. Lesson: build with someone, not alone.'
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The big idea: the journal is the resume that updates itself. After six months it does more for you than any certificate.
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