Trying to make it more of a habit to take stock of what I’ve been doing, achieving, and thinking about. Quarterly seems like a good cadence!

Wins for the quarter

• Built out a webapp from scratch, and deployed it on AWS. Intending to make it a full fledged freemium product, but for now: vouchforme.online.
• Won something for the company I work for
• Continuing to keep a pulse on climate issues (more to come at the tail end of the year)
• Actively determining my next move (and a more generalised approach to careers)

Gonna write more about how my brain approaches the question of securing the next opportunity - probably a wiser thing to do to split it into a few articles instead - very likely will spin it out in the near future. But for now…

Career Capital, Seizing Opportunities, and the Notion of “Good Work”

I’ll be unpacking three things that are on the forefront on my mind, which feel like the trifecta that matters most to me as someone who:

• Wants to be able to eat while being trustworthy enough
• Isn’t afraid to get their hands and feet dirty on the ground, but hopes to be able to affect broader systemic change

Career Capital

The two ways people accidentally sabotage their career early on

Many people take jobs early in their career that leave them stranded later on. Why does this happen and how can you avoid it?

80000hours.org

The Notion of Good Work

How to Do Great Work

paulgraham.com

From social skills to sleep patterns: all the self-help advice that actually works

Much advice on how to be successful is wrong, or useless cliches. Here we cover the best advice we've found in the last 5 years that's backed by evidence.

80000hours.org

What I Plan To Read

Been consolidating a bunch of books, and I think it’s time to set aside time and mindspace to read them!

In no particular order: