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Chiara Cokieng

📍 Berlin, Germany

"Confidence, not perfection, is the goal" and other insights from Scott Berkun on public speaking

Every time I have a talk (or presentation) coming up, I review Derek Sivers’s notes [https://sive.rs/book/ConfessionsPublicSpeaker] on “Confessions of a Public Speaker”. It always calms my nerves, reminds me that fear comes with the territory, and that the audience wants to you to do well.

Monthly-ish Personal Update (Jan 2022)

Hi, this is my monthly-ish personal update to my most valued friends and allies. More info here. Guilt-free unsubscribe link at the bottom. Here’s what’s been happening since the last 'monthly-ish' update in July, six months ago (925 words, 5m46s reading time): I joined Craft Docs,

Learning SQL with The SQL Murder Mystery

I just solved the SQL Murder Mystery [https://mystery.knightlab.com/], a fun 'whodunnit' game designed to practice basic SQL concepts and commands. If you've been wanting to learn SQL, I highly recommend it! I thought I'd finally pick up some SQL skills. I

How I manage my time and energy while job hunting (and working)

If you check my LinkedIn Recommendations, people say I work at ‘an incredibly high speed’, am ‘the best organized person I know’, and am ‘somehow, always simultaneously thoughtful and expeditiously efficient.’ So I thought it would be fun and useful to share how I manage my time and energy while

My most used keyboard shortcuts in Craft

I was talking to a friend who was sharing his screen while typing in Craft. It was a little painful to see him slow his thought process down by having to use the trackpad to format his text. One of the reasons I love Craft is that my typing can

Sorry, you're not Dave 😅

Today, I wrote an email update to Gen Propel's subscribers on what we're up to. I haven't done this in four months. It showed. To make my writing more personal, I always start by addressing it to a hypothetical person, ex – "Hi Dave&

aText and Google Drive

Today, I simplified some of the apps I use, specifically: I decided to go back to aText [https://www.trankynam.com/atext/] and stop my Text Expander subscription. Originally, I wanted to use Text Expander for two reasons: (1) Formatting didn't transfer well from aText to Craft for

Rocket German Walk + Anki

Today, I felt a little feverish, probably from the second shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. I didn't work at all, but I still did my "Rocket German Walk + Anki" habit. I've been doing it almost every weekday for a month. It's the

YouTube Comedian?

Motivated by how unhappy [https://www.chiaracokieng.com/my-ideal-skillshare-intro-lessons-learned-from-analyzing-three-skillshare-classes/] I was with my video skills, I asked my friend if she'd consider starting a YouTube channel with me. But on what? I want to get better at video. It's a key skill in 2021. But I&

Skillshare course intro v2

Today, I rewrote our Skillshare course's intro [https://www.chiaracokieng.com/gen-propel-skillshare-course-intro/] based on what I learned [https://www.chiaracokieng.com/my-ideal-skillshare-intro-lessons-learned-from-analyzing-three-skillshare-classes/] from studying three Skillshare class intros. Here's the before and after: And here's me practicing the part on "Who am I?