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Notes on remembering your own work.
Short, practical writing on capturing wins before they fade, using the STAR method without the awkwardness, and building a career record you can actually trust.
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Short, practical writing on capturing wins before they fade, using the STAR method without the awkwardness, and building a career record you can actually trust.
STAR isn't the problem. Reconstructing Situation, Task, Action, Result six months later, from memory, is.
Read → Product philosophyAI is good at two different jobs: finding things you've already written, and inventing things that sound plausible. Only one belongs in your career record.
Read → Product philosophyCareer tools fail for a boring reason: they ask you to remember to open them. The ones that work meet you where you already are.
Read → AI & workListing “ChatGPT” and “prompt engineering” under Skills convinces no one. Showing what you built with them does.
Read → Product use casesSelf-reviews take hours mostly because of the remembering, not the writing. A running work log turns review season into editing.
Read → PromotionsA promotion packet is a summary of a case already made — or not — by the work and visibility that happened months earlier.
Read → PromotionsIf you're already doing the job, the evidence should already exist. Most people just haven't written it down.
Read → Career strategyPredicting where you'll be in five years is mostly guessing. Keeping an honest record of where you've actually been isn't.
Read → Career strategyA series of short stints reads very differently with a clear “why” attached to each move than without one.
Read → Career strategyA gap on a resume raises fewer eyebrows than it used to. What you did with it, and how clearly you can talk about it, raises more.
Read → Resume & CVThe cover letter that gets skimmed is generic. The one that gets read is specific — and specificity has to come from somewhere real.
Read → Resume & CVA vague opening paragraph full of adjectives wastes the most-read real estate on the page. A specific one doesn't.
Read → Resume & CVMost resume reviews catch typos and formatting. The useful ones catch claims you can't actually back up.
Read → Resume & CVThe bar for a good bullet isn't how it reads on the page. It's whether you can say more about it, on the spot, without stumbling.
Read → Resume & CVApplicant tracking systems get blamed for a lot. The bigger issue is usually further up the funnel.
Read → Resume & CVBoth software and humans got better at spotting a resume written for a machine instead of a person.
Read → Resume & CVA rule of thumb from entry-level hiring gets applied, awkwardly, to people with a decade or more of relevant experience.
Read → Resume & CVThe format changes by region and purpose. What shouldn't change is where the content comes from.
Read → Resume & CVA portfolio is only as strong as the record behind it. Without one, it's just a nicer-looking resume.
Read → Resume & CVAnyone can list a skill. A documented account of using it is much harder to fake.
Read → GuideA brag doc is the raw record your CV, reviews, and interview stories all get pulled from later — here's how to build one without inventing anything.
Read → GuideTwo ways to reconstruct a year of work before you forget the details: mine your own AI chat history, and ask the people who watched you do it.
Read →In the meantime, the best way to have something to write about is to start capturing.
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