Show Your Work!

Austin Kleon's follow-up to Steal Like an Artist turns from finding creativity to getting known, arguing that generosity matters more than genius. Its ten rules urge artists and entrepreneurs to let others into their process instead of promoting themselves, to share something small every day, to use the network rather than wasting time networking, and to stick around. Illustrations, quotes, stories and examples fill the pages. Kleon covers the etiquette of sharing and the risk of oversharing, practical points of internet life such as owning a good domain name and giving credit, and what he calls the ecology of talent: the communal nature of creative work.

Ali Abdaal counts it among the three books that most changed his life, saying it reshaped how he thought about sharing online and pushed him to start his blog in January 2016. Ryan Holiday included it on his list of 37 books every young and wildly ambitious man should read.