5 docs tagged with "systems"

Purpose

How my job hunting strategy has changed from handcrafted cover letters in 2017, to thousands of ATS-optimized applications in 2021, to a lean, high-leverage filtering system in 2025.

Evernote was my primary system of record for over a decade. Everything — ideas, tasks, travel info, reading notes, system designs — went into Evernote. I had a detailed structure, tagging conventions, note lifecycle rules, and even triage folders for determining what would end up in my portfolio.

Most tech folks talk about reducing friction for customers—making sign-up easy, UX sleek, onboarding seamless.

Sometimes a ChatGPT conversation starts with a simple request — and spirals into five different ideas, each branching out with its own insight, its own action item, its own life.