Monthly-ish Personal Update (Mar 2021)
Starting a cohort-based course on job hunting abroad. Finding scenius in Compound Writing. Moved chiaracokieng.com to Ghost.
Chiara Cokieng
The product challenge of creating Tools for Thought
There's an interesting discussion going on in Craft's Slack Community. Thread.
The gist: In his podcast with Metamuse, CEO and Founder Balint talks about Craft being primarily a tool for thought.
A real tool for thought must remove all friction for users to dump thoughts easily
Finding scenius in Compound Writing
Image by Austin Kleon via austinkleon.com
[https://austinkleon.com/2019/03/06/a-map-of-scenius/].
I first learned about āsceniusesā from Austin Kleonās book Show Your Work!
[https://austinkleon.com/2017/05/12/scenius/]
> If you look back closely at history, many of the people who
How to save a tweetstorm to Craft Docs
Update: Or just use https://the.rip/ š¤¦āāļø
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I loved Andrew Barry [https://curiouslionlearning.com/start-here/]ās tweetstorm
[https://twitter.com/Bazzaruto/status/1360389276152836097] on delivering student
transformations at scale. I wanted to save it as a note in Craft
[https://www.chiaracokieng.com/tag/craft-docs/] and just learned
How to automatically group all todo items in Craft Docs
Similar to Roam's TODO page.
How I use Pages vs Blocks in Craft Docs
In my post on why I replaced Bear, Obsidian, and Roam Research with Craft
[https://chiaracokieng.com/why-i-replaced-bear-obsidian-and-roam-research-with-craft/]
, Jeff asks,
> I am still rather confused about Craftās Pages vs. Blocks. They seem to work
just about the same, but
What's it like to be a Product Manager in a very technical domain you're not familiar with?
A Twitter thread.
Job hunting in a new country? I'm starting a cohort-based course š
Sun, 14. Mar 2021 Update: Pilot cohort will go live on April 2021. Applications
are open until Mar 31, 2021. 6 slots only. Read the course details
[https://genpropel.com/course/].
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Iām creating a cohort-based course on job hunting! š„³
The goal is to help people learn the skills
Just-In-Time Reading: How to smash through books to solve problems
I recently changed my relationship with books I read to solve work problems. Not
only has it helped me actually solve work problems, it has also freed up my
personal time to read books for personal enjoyment.
Hereās the tl;dr: When youāre looking for a solution to
Monthly-ish Personal Update (Feb 2021)
I was so close to quitting my job. I've finally built the habit of building habits. Passed the German B1 exam.