Show us your side project! What are you building right now?
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Unlock the full reading · $5.50 →A Reddit post inviting people to share their side projects. The poster is building Eyondo, an AI platform with 40+ models for creating and editing images, videos, and audio, and requests feedback.
Teaching:
• Side projects as personal practice: students often treat their mat time as separate from life, but the same iterative, feedback-driven approach applies to both
• The value of showing up publicly with unfinished work—like posting a project in progress—mirrors the vulnerability required to practice in a room full of people
• Building something with 40+ models is like learning Primary Series: you need a container (the sequence, the platform) to make sense of many discrete parts
Writing seeds:
• Essay: 'Your Practice Is Your Side Project'—how treating Ashtanga as an ongoing build (not a finished product) changes the relationship to progress and failure
• Shala Daily post: 'What Are You Building?'—invite students to name one thing they're working on in their practice right now, framed as a creative project
• Short piece on feedback loops: how asking for criticism (like the poster does) is a systems literacy skill that translates directly to refining asana
• Post comparing version control in software to daily practice: each session is a commit, each month a release, each year a major version
Idea map:
• Side projects as systems: the platform metaphor (container + tools + iteration) maps directly to practice as method
• Public accountability and feedback as attention training—posting your work is like practicing in the Mysore room instead of alone at home
• The iterative nature of building (ship, test, refine) is identical to the Ashtanga method: same sequence, different data every day
• Systems literacy includes knowing when to ask for input and how to integrate it without losing the throughline—same skill in teaching and in building
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1vq7ggd/show_us_your_side_project_what_are_you_building/
Teaching:
• Side projects as personal practice: students often treat their mat time as separate from life, but the same iterative, feedback-driven approach applies to both
• The value of showing up publicly with unfinished work—like posting a project in progress—mirrors the vulnerability required to practice in a room full of people
• Building something with 40+ models is like learning Primary Series: you need a container (the sequence, the platform) to make sense of many discrete parts
Writing seeds:
• Essay: 'Your Practice Is Your Side Project'—how treating Ashtanga as an ongoing build (not a finished product) changes the relationship to progress and failure
• Shala Daily post: 'What Are You Building?'—invite students to name one thing they're working on in their practice right now, framed as a creative project
• Short piece on feedback loops: how asking for criticism (like the poster does) is a systems literacy skill that translates directly to refining asana
• Post comparing version control in software to daily practice: each session is a commit, each month a release, each year a major version
Idea map:
• Side projects as systems: the platform metaphor (container + tools + iteration) maps directly to practice as method
• Public accountability and feedback as attention training—posting your work is like practicing in the Mysore room instead of alone at home
• The iterative nature of building (ship, test, refine) is identical to the Ashtanga method: same sequence, different data every day
• Systems literacy includes knowing when to ask for input and how to integrate it without losing the throughline—same skill in teaching and in building
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1vq7ggd/show_us_your_side_project_what_are_you_building/
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