I had been working for almost a year as an IT when there was the opportunity to attend Landing Festival to better understand the market.
Besides contacting more directly with people in the field and talking not only about technology, but also ways of thinking and working ideals (which was amazing!), I was pleasantly surprised with a workshop I attended on PKM.
Personal Knowledge Mastery, in short, PKM, is an action framework designed by Harold Jarsche to make sense of the information overload in the current digital era. Quoting his webpage:
Give people fish & you feed them for a day
Teach people to fish & you feed them for a lifetime
Help people learn for themselves how to fish & you prepare them for life in perpetual beta
Perpetual beta = perpetual learning, perpetual evolution, perpetual repetition of the three status of SEEK > SENSE > SHARE.
All in all, and trying to sum up the basis of that workshop, it is only when you try to make sense of the information that you seek and share it, that you’ll receive the feedback necessary to improve because every bit of received feedback will be used the next time you share the knowledge in a continuous self-improvement process.
I advise you to read not only this article, which goes into details about the seek sense share model, as well as his blog - both will make you think about things a different way.
Well, in that workshop, when I asked him something along the lines of:
“But I’m a junior! I already have some difficulties putting my thought process into words, it will be even worse talking about things in which I don't have much experience.”
Well, the answer was something along the lines of:
“Well, just write it anyway - why don’t you start a blog? Share your journey, the way in which you solved an issue, a difficulty, something you have learned. It will help you polish your discourse and learn by doing.
I felt inspired. And here I am.