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Get Your Work Recognized: Write a Brag Document
Career advise from July Evans: Write a “brag” document. It’s useful in negotiation, in annual review & promo conversations, and when you least expect it. Why: you can’t expect your manager to know everything you’ve done. Plus you need to combat your own human cognitive issues (memory, recency bias, self depreciation, etc). What to do: maintain ... See more
Adam Wiggins • Career with swyx // Metamuse podcast episode 53
if you feel like you haven’t contributed much
a thing you can do is assemble a doc listing out all of the things you’ve genuinely loved- your favorite books, movies, music, whatever, with a couple of lines about how/why they matter to you
and share that
https://t.co/yAfjaV7Joc
Become a documentarian of what you do. Start a work journal: Write your thoughts down in a notebook, or speak them into an audio recorder. Keep a scrapbook. Take a lot of photographs of your work at different stages in your process. Shoot video of you working. This isn’t about making art, it’s about simply keeping track of what’s going on around yo
... See moreAustin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
Get into the habit of tracking your victories as they happen. Keep a record.
Rachel Rodgers • We Should All Be Millionaires
whatever the nature of your work, there is an art to what you do, and there are people who would be interested in that art, if only you presented it to them in the right way. In fact, sharing your process might actually be most valuable if the products of your work aren’t easily shared, if you’re still in the apprentice stage of your work, if you c
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