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Chiara Cokieng

📍 Berlin, Germany

How to get an English-speaking job in Germany, from abroad

My biggest tip: Don’t try to convince people to do something they’re not already looking to do. Instead, find people and companies are who are already looking for people like you. Your goal is to find and talk to 100 such people. I write about this in How

Cognitive Distortions

For a coaching client, I had it on my list to “research how to handle negative thoughts.” She is a high performing product person, one of the most talented and driven people I know. Her negative thoughts cause feelings of low self-confidence, which sometimes leads to unsatisfactory action or inaction.

Churchill cried a lot, too.

In The last time I cried [https://chiaracokieng.com/crying/], I wrote about crying a lot and being easily moved to tears. It took at least 28 years for me to accept it as a fact and not see it as a sign of weakness. It was comforting to read

To get to the good stuff, get it all out and purge the need to write self help

I love to write. I would love to write about product management, operations, even history. The problem is, I keep writing about self help. Why do I keep writing about self help? It might be because my experience so far has been on helping and improving myself. Initially, I needed

Should you focus on process or results?

Bill Walsh has a saying I love, > The score takes care of itself. Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize. (Source: Nat Eliason [https://www.nateliason.com/notes/score-takes-care-bill-walsh]) But Patty Azzarello also has a quote that makes a

Customer Service is overrated

There’s this theory that good customer service goes a long way towards compensating for a mediocre product. I used to believe this. In fact, I used to work for a startup that advocates for “Helpful Marketing.” The idea was: Prioritize helping your customers over selling your product. Build a

Why I replaced Bear, Obsidian, and Roam Research with Craft

I used to use and pay for Bear, Obsidian (free), and Roam Research. These days, Craft (https://www.craft.do/) is my notes app of choice because: * I find it the most pleasurable app to read, write, and annotate (bold and highlight) with. With Obsidian, I found it a pain

When does one learn ethics in technology and business?

I was talking to a lawyer friend about the Netflix show, The Social Dilemma. To most people not in tech, the negative impact of technology on our lives is shocking. As someone who’s worked in tech all her life, I am not surprised at all. In law, they take

My implementation of Zettelkasten in Craft

I have been using a new notes app called Craft.do [https://www.craft.do/]. I love it and have been obsessively using it for the past three days. In this blog post, I share how I’m implementing the Zettelkasten method in Craft. For the best experience and links

How to not waste your youth while you are young

> Youth is wasted on the young. I first heard this quote from Adam Levin’s song Lost Stars. Ever since, I’ve been mindful not to waste my youth while I am young. Here are some directives I have for myself: * Build good habits. * Learn. Don’t act like