Francesco
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Francesco
say you’re writing a book, aren’t you afraid that the words you’re saying won’t be true anymore once the book is out and you’re reading it back? Is anyone else also afraid to say things out loud, especially about your own work and creative practice that won’t be true to you in a month, a year, a decade’s time?
Group Hug Approach is having one multifaceted job or business that allows you to wear many hats and shift between several domains at work.
Emilie Wapnick • How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
Embracing your ever changing job description
And my job does it now
It's funny that we invented machines to reduce our workload and enjoy more of our limited time on this planet.
Yet, somewhere along the way, we drifted off course and started trying to work on overdrive, behaving like machines only to regret it later on our deathbeds ↗.
We try hacks and supplements to trick our minds and bodies into producing more... See more
Yet, somewhere along the way, we drifted off course and started trying to work on overdrive, behaving like machines only to regret it later on our deathbeds ↗.
We try hacks and supplements to trick our minds and bodies into producing more... See more
Makes me think of how the first AI tools that came to the public eye a couple of years ago were sold to us as productivity aids that could free us time from long, boring, or repetitive tasks and someone make us regain some time (or it might just be this is how I thought AI was being promoted to me/my social circle).
And yet, somewhere along the way, we began using AI as our planner, calendar or in support of it — basically asking natural language processing and AI algorithms to free us more time so we could… work more? Achieve more? Have something else to work on instead?
What about the time the machine help us free? Where has that gone?
Practically every person who graduates from art school will be forced to professionally reinvent themselves as something other than an artist. Because of this, the process of quitting art has been enshrined in the art world as its own respectable genre. This allows professional failure to be normalized so that nothing has to change in an art world... See more
Unfortunately stating the obvious, but finally
No one is coming to save you.
You can sit around blaming the market. You can say it’s unfair. You can say it’s exhausting.
But at the end of the day, you either figure it out, or you get left behind.
If you’re invisible, make yourself discoverable.
If your portfolio isn’t getting traction, test and iterate.
If you’re losing at interviews, fix your... See more
You can sit around blaming the market. You can say it’s unfair. You can say it’s exhausting.
But at the end of the day, you either figure it out, or you get left behind.
If you’re invisible, make yourself discoverable.
If your portfolio isn’t getting traction, test and iterate.
If you’re losing at interviews, fix your... See more
This interview touched a nerve I didn’t think was still there so let's have a proper think about it here, shall we.
Right, the market is more competitive and hiring has changed —arguably for the worse. The anonymous designer interviewed here says designers (although it applies to everyone really) caught in this mess need not to raise their concerns but suck it up, dry their tears, and just give. Offer yet more expertise, soul and time to greedy companies and the recruiters that represent them.
Look, I know applications are a tango and it takes two to close a deal. And I appreciated the practical tips shared here to guide people in taking the most helpful steps. But an avalanche of questions came to mind soon after getting to the end of this that the well-meaningness of it all had to take a side step.
Isn’t this problem as much about hiring processes as it is about candidates? What does it say about businesses who seem increasingly detached from spotting real talent?
And where is the conversation about these expectations and the weeks upon weeks of unpaid time candidates are asked to invest into each application?
Until recently, I'd been in the job market and was swimming in it for over a year. No matter how much my interview skills improved, no matter the increasingly positive feedback on my CV, the imbalance remained pretty clear.
For some, the question of who needs to adapt seems to fall heavily on candidates rather than being shared. What I find interesting is how people who land jobs—through skill, timing and yes, maybe a bit of luck and often a lot of free time on their hands—end up presenting their experience as a formula. "I've figured it out and if you just do what I did, you'll get there too!"
But they forget they’re asking you to pick up the burning tray from the oven with your bare hands, and rarely do they question why the system is keeping all the gloves to themselves.
Anyone else wondering about this? Are we just accepting these requirements as how things are? Shouldn’t we be having a chat about whether hiring should be more regulated and how it could work better for everyone?
To re-explore once in a while
Candour | A digital agency based in Norwich
withcandour.co.ukfirst agency without a bloated website, and they do great work
Same here. I don’t think consistency is the key. Most of what we read is just noise all around. It’s not only about Substack, it’s about every platform I’m in.
For me, the point isn’t ten thousand posts a day, but writing something that’s real about myself. And that’s exactly what I want to read from other people too,... See more
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no fussy email template and just a handful of sentences, great example