does it actually help to confine all of this into a single app?

outloud personal reflection:

I much prefer using simpler tools dedicated to specific tasks (todo, calendar, notes, pictures, websites, etc)

> I chuck random things into this so I can pull them out of my active memory and come back to them later.

I feel like maybe this is the heart of it, having a personal cache to make a temporary mess in until you have time to clean it up later. I could see that being useful - though id want to move everything out of that place and not organize things within it

What is the pain you are looking to alleviate? YMMV with notion. I think your personal reflections are probably the most important part of this because personal productivity and organization are so personal.

Single app has worked better for me. I am at 4 months of journaling and planning every day (I have used notion for a few years). When I was using desecrate apps I would go 1-3 weeks before system would fall apart.

For me the main pros are: Ability to move and copy elements from tickler to daily plan so easily. Ability to link todo's to documentation. Ability to take notes in a way that works with how I think, and ability to take handle incoming thoughts as fast as they need to be documented.

Main cons are: only "date time" construct in databases, I would prefer a "time" construct. Offline. Data portability.

> I feel like maybe this is the heart of it, having a personal cache to make a temporary mess in until you have time to clean it up later. I could see that being useful - though id want to move everything out of that place and not organize things within it

Cal Newport has a `working_memory.txt` file on every one of his desktops that he chucks random information into and then processes it at the end of the day. Maybe a system like that could be more your jam.

I might one day work up the courage to use [https://bangle.io/](https://bangle.io/) + github. Feels like owning my data + a bit more flexibility could be nice, but that seems like a lot of work.

Ill have to check out Cal's implementation because thats relatively close to what Im doing now.

I have a WORKSPACE folder I dump multiple .txt files into and then go through them later to organize. Ill post a path in the .txt if its related to a specific file or just a shortcut to the file instead of a .txt

It's kind of like a to-do, but I also have a todo list for more traditional checklist items that I am pretty good about checking.

>Data portability.

anything without this is a non-starter for me personally. I need to be able to import and export with the tools I use. the only exception I make for that is my todo list, because well I dont really care about the history. everything i put in it is meant to be deleted after i do the thing

"What is the budget for this role?"

"the scale and scope of responsibilities for the type of work I do have so much variation that it is impossible for me to tell you what I would expect to be paid for this position this early in the process"

What's the point in hiding your name if you submit a job history which narrows the scope of your anonymity?

how do you verify the contents of said resume without having enough information to identify them?

I could just take anyone's github profile and say that it's me and you would have no idea.

my healthcare was actually better when i was unemployed than it is with my current company

Right? I was on Medicaid for about half a year because of weird bureaucratic reasons.

It was the best health care plan I've ever had in the US. No deductible, copays were literally $1 or $2. I had access to the entire Kaiser system for routine stuff. You literally can't buy an insurance plan as good as the medicaid that I got.

Of course, now I live in Canada. That's even better.

Mind you, this was in Colorado, which took a vey progressive stance on Obamacare. I'm sure that there are places where medicaid is close to useless.

I would, yes. 30 day terms would work for me as it does for many business to business agreements. I dont agree with the other commentators entitlement to 14 weeks of severance pay in any situation, however

>The entire industry focuses way too much on 'experience with tool X' as a proxy for 'technical skill Y'

Strongly emphasizing this. This is HIGHY applicable to the analytics environment. As a business analyst who specialized in mostly ad-hoc development because it was the most value-add area at the companies I worked with.. I had a lot of trouble finding new work because I didnt use Tableau, or Power BI, or Looker, etc. I was some sort of fool for doing everything in SQL, Excel, and Python.

IMO the tools are great, and you need a much lower level understanding of analytical concepts to get value from them. But for some reason people kept getting the impression I would somehow be less effective with them because I dont use them. And I had trouble correcting them with the limited bandwidth that exists to communicate with a single applicant in the hiring process. If I tried to get right to the point, I felt myself appearing arrogant.

The carpentry analogy is very similar to how i described it. "I am currently using a ruler and screwdriver, and these tools provide lasers and power drills"

are the 2/4 and 0/10 interviews the same level of work? Or are you applying to higher level positions now?

I'm was looking at senior levels both times.

I think the part about that strategy that bugs me is that the workforce doesnt know they are effectively doing a tryout for the company

But at the same time, these are probably the same companies that say "competitive work environment" somewhere on the job application so maybe employees should expect it

> these are probably the same companies that say "competitive work environment" somewhere on the job application so maybe employees should expect it

Anecdotally, I've seen touchy feely corporate tone along with this strategy, and would suspect that is a fairly common combination. What you describe certainly exists, but it's not always so obvious.

ugh, i hate it. "We are a family here" ... "haha jk, get lost"

I have government contracting experience in construction management QAQC

Im pretty sure predatory and toxic mobile game industry would fall under the same (or worse) categorization as ads, so would fall under the same logic of "if you cant afford to run your website without doing something unethical, then your website doesnt deserve to run"