Gatekeeping | srflvl Podcast 006

Gatekeeping usually gets talked about as a competition problem. It works more like self sabotage. This one is about why holding your process close is one of the quieter ways to stall out, and what tends to happen to an idea once it leaves your hands. There is the other side of it too, which is the years spent hunting for an answer that was never actually being hidden. Sometimes the person you think is stonewalling you is telling the truth. There is the case for explaining all your steps, since that tends to be where the next one comes from, and for keeping just enough mystery that people still ask how it got done. If there's a technique you have been sitting on because you are not sure what you would come up with next time, this one's for you.