Thinking In Public is the practice of 📝live streaming processes of problem-solving, decision-making, ideation, and storytelling from everyday work — turning internal cognition into a public act that doubles as education and an open invitation for collaboration.
The concept was inspired by 📝Stephen Wolfram, who has been "Livestream Technology CEO'ing" since early 2018. Wolfram described his viewers as "instant advisors" — a real-time focus group offering comments and suggestions as decisions are being made. In this framework, the act of articulating a decision in front of others reshapes the decision itself. The stream isn't a broadcast — it's a thinking environment that happens to have witnesses.
For me, this practice became 📝Playing In Public, a reframe that emerged from reading 📝The Ascent of Humanity. Where thinking in public emphasizes cognition, playing in public emphasizes 📝co-creativity and 📝intimacy — bringing out one's true qualities and inviting others to show the aspect of themselves needed for the task at hand. The shift was from performance to participation, from showing work to doing work together.