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Chiara Cokieng

📍 Berlin, Germany

No one is coming to save us

> No one is coming to save you. Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem Don’t get me wrong — I didn’t sit around waiting for someone to save me. But when I was ten, I thought a person goes from grade school to high school to university to first

Book: Gateless by Sebastian Marshall and Kai Zau

Co-authored by my hero and mentor, Sebastian Marshall [http://chiaracokieng.com/marshall/]. A guidebook for the modern career. Provides a useful framework of “the Four Currencies” you need to manage to create your own path in this new world – Capacity, Network, Signal, Assets. If you’re a person who’s

Job Hunting Directives from Knock 'em Dead

This is the book that taught me that - like everything else - job searching is a skill. It can be learned and honed. Job searching is a personal sales campaign. 1. The goal is to get into as many conversations as quickly and as often as possible with the

Product Quality is Downstream of Operations

I’m in the process of acquiring an Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC) from the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA). One of the requirements is that the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) verify my work contract. I’ve been thinking about these government agencies. I wonder what their operating metrics are.

How I’m evaluating if I can use Bear Notes as my “Second Brain” again

Why I am moving from Notion [https://www.notion.so] to Bear [https://bear.app/]: 1. Speed. To search, write, and edit. Similar to Evernote, the abundance of Notion’s features just cannot compensate for its slowness. 2. Related to speed and performance, multitasking. Specifically, to take notes while on

@DeutschChiara

I’m trying a new and fun way to practice and learn German. 1-I created a new Twitter account @DeutschChiara [https://twitter.com/DeutschChiara] exclusively for tweeting in German. Google Translate not allowed. > Mein Zap arbeitet! Ich bin glücklich! — Chiara Lernt Deutsch 🙇🏻‍♀️ (@DeutschChiara) October 16, 2019 [https://twitter.com/

Tip: Keep a "Smile File"

Anytime someone tells you something that makes you smile – a compliment, that you made an impact on them, or just any touching messages, save it to your Smile File. Whenever you feel down, doubtful of yourself, when the imposter syndrome monster visits, review your Smile File. Remind yourself of why

True learning requires doing

True learning requires actual doing and deliberate practice. When learning “soft” or knowledge-based skills, e.g. customer development or doing user interviews, it’s easy to delude ourselves that we’ve “learned” something merely by reading about it. This is why learning a new language or a new sport is

How I organize my commonplace book in Notion

Fri, 12. Feb 2021 Update: I now use Craft and wrote about why I prefer it over Bear, Obsidian, Roam Research, and yes, Notion [https://chiaracokieng.com/why-i-replaced-bear-obsidian-and-roam-research-with-craft/] . While I still have a BASB-inspired folder structure, my main ‘organizational system’ for my ‘commonplace book’ is now more akin to densely

How strongly does business leadership correlate with extraordinary financial success?

Something I’ve always been suspicious about: Does good leadership really correlate with “breakthrough” financial success in business? I’ve worked with some pretty good managers and leaders. We’ve done great work together, but obviously not “unicorn” level success. Don’t get me wrong, practicing good leadership has served