Francesco
@fran
Francesco
I feel like an anti-entrepreneur, in that it feels completely against my nature to come up with ideas that make money. It’s like I can conceive of every kind of idea except that kind.
everywhere.tools
everywhere.tools
Good work advice and Decent web design
aaaa! what an awesome collection
The requirement to be strong can be damaging to the human spirit. Exerting immense energy to hold back tears while around others isn't much different than hiding concerns about money, security, and prosperity. Hiding our vulnerabilities is neither healthy nor fruitful.
The Need to Be Strong Is Overrated, Pamela Hazelton | Are.na
I greatly appreciated the chance to stress test my productivity system this last six months or so. I learned a few important lessons about myself:
- I’m imaginative in the less intensive part of the year and I imagine myself doing more than I’m capable of in the intense part of the year.
- When push came to shove, having a very basic, skeleton plan for
Stress Testing Your Productivity System: Three Tips for When Your Productivity System Fails You – The Sweet Setup
Brilliantly describes the method (or non-method) that I think works well for me
🚨 Be wary of the “marketing gurus” and entrepreneur influencers telling you how to grow online… but staying silent about the US government policies being pushed right now that directly impact your freedom of speech and expression on these platforms.
If someone is teaching you “visibility strategies” without naming the... See more
Natalie Brite | DoGoodBizsubstack.com“Your marketing doesn’t exist in a vacuum… it exists inside a political landscape that shapes who gets heard, what gets seen, and what gets erased.“
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?
A candidate just pulled a brilliant salary negotiation move:
Most ppl: “If you don’t increase my salary to $X, I won’t join.”
This candidate: “I’m going to join, even if you don’t increase my salary to $X, but I’d LOVE if you did!”
She got the full salary... See more
What a great way to come across, motivated, confident, yet secretly manipulating the employer into giving you the increase
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
Elizabeth Lesser • Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Is it because change appears to threaten our survival?
a community is defined not by common interests or physical space, but as “a group of people who share mutual concern for one another”. It’s the difference between someone you feel you could call on for help in the event of a 3am plumbing emergency, versus “someone you technically ate pizza with” once.