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For context - I'm building a marketplace for artists and struggling to find a global payouts rail. The ones that exist have really high turnover requirements or reject new marketplaces that deal with higher value physical items due to chargeback risk.
So one way to avoid being hired into a team like this is to ask a many questions centered around the impact of the team.
For example, - “what are some of the main accomplishments this team has had in the past?” - “what is the mission & vision of the team, and how is it aligned to the business operational plan?” - “what will happen to the company if this team fails on its biggest bets?”
This is naturally aimed towards bigger companies.
Before this there were 5 different ways to calculate specific things like “minimum night flow”.
Plus we then built the data product which calculates all that stuff and serves it to the business in a self-serve query interface.
But by far the most impactful was bringing together different teams to align on how actually to calculate core business terms.
Even the Notion website fails to load some times...
Was interested in this as I'm looking to build a "swearing detector" to help me swear less in video calls but this could not pick up one sentence properly out of a couple and then it started throwing errors.
Think it needs some time back in the lab tbh.
However, that doesn't mean the recruiters who rejected my CV didn't care about it. And that's why, to avoid any confusion about the gap I added an item on my resume which indicates what I was up to. In my case, I travelled to India to do my yoga teachers training course. So I added the course certificate with the date clearly on my CV.
So to summarize: the best thing to do IMO is to remove the possibility of confusion by adding any descriptive piece of information on your resume.
https://www.notion.so/?r=f5b9c5492da44f55bedb473d92a0bfb1
The free tier is pretty extensive, and I'm most def gonna upgrade soon, but every bit helps :)
The main selling point is that it's all the other tools - Trello, Kanban, Asana, Google Sheets (to an extent) in one place, with a planned release of an API.
I've been loving it so much that I've started helping my brother organize some of his company's projects using Notion to showcase the value of having your content organized in one place with the tools that make you feel like your living in 2019.
Especially useful if you are traveling to countries where public transport isn't a given.
So, how do I deal with shit? Mostly I don't, to be honest. But whats been keeping me sane is this:
1 )Work towards a goal that you know will enable you to give back. If it's donating to charity or volunteering work, its this crazy thing that happens when you start really thinking of giving back to people with less with no expectation of getting anything in return.
And:
2) Meditation. Being able to view your thoughts as thoughts and nothing more. Learning to become mindful of whats currently around you and how to appreciate it, especially yourself.
Hope this helps. More than keen to chat about it if you want.