Finally sharing this!
A free Product Design Portfolio Presentation Template @odmjoseph and I built for interview prep.
Hope it helps. Feedback is always welcome!
https://t.co/r6sEAP4mlG
I genuinely believe the only way to quit any addiction is to go cold turkey. When you try to replace a current addiction with another thing, you are inevitably creating another form of addiction.
This might be a very dumb thing to say out loud, but I think not being laid off at any point from 2020-now puts you at a bit of a mental disadvantage vs the loads of people who have had to experience that (for some, multiple times). It radicalizes you, it makes you think way differently about systems and corporations and all that. The work/life veil gets thinner. You start to plan your life a bit differently. You want to rage against the machine a bit, and that's becoming a necessary way of thinking to survive and thrive in this next phase of whatever we are going through.
The reality is actually far less definite because what actually determines whether you keep or lose your job is a moving target. There is no absolute security.
You can only try to build leverage, position yourself well, and hope that you are increasing your odds of success.
Everyone seems convinced that they know what skills matter in this AI era. Everyday, think pieces about the future-proof roles, the safe bets or a promise that if you learn this one thing, you will be fine.
critiquing is an art
like i enjoy reading from a person who has sat with a thing long enough to understand it before they dismantle it and who has earned the right to say ‘this doesn’t work’ because they know what working looks like
we don’t have that as much anymore