My Resume Is Total Fiction
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My Resume Is Total Fiction
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#2This is awesome advice. I think among other things, it helps you focus on what you really want out of your career and where you want to go.
I know that for some, this resume idea will work brilliantly, for others, a blog post or just a list in a notebook will suffice :)
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#3Perhaps you could try the same with your obituary. Less work bound but perhaps a touch morbid.
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#4IMO, life is not about having a rigid "plan" and executing towards it, it's about having a general direction, being flexible and making the most of the opportunities that come your way.
Not only is the latter easier to navigate, you'll be happier because your expectations are more likely to be met.
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#5Perhaps you could try the same with your obituary. Less work bound but perhaps a touch morbid.
With the major caveat, of course, that you can't read your obituary when it's 'realised'.
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#6Impostor syndrome, meet fake it till you make it culture.
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#7So I disagree with this advice, because I think there is an effect that talking about something feels as good as if you've done it. I prefer to keep an accomplishment totally stealth - not write it down or mention it to anyone - until it's more than done. And then understate it, casually let it out of the bag.
This is how Apple did products in their heydey. Did Steve Jobs list all the things the nonexistent iPhone did, and then selectively publish a version that wasn't false?
No. He kept his fucking mouth shut and pushed ahead toward a vision.
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#8Pedantic, but: If you take the fictional parts of the resume and achieve them, thereby making them nonfiction, then your resume isn't "total" (post title) fiction, is it?
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#9Pedantic, but: If you take the fictional parts of the resume and achieve them, thereby making them nonfiction, then your resume isn't "total" (post title) fiction, is it?
More pedantic, but: If he removes the fictional parts to produce a truthful resume when someone asks for it, then it wasn't "total" fiction to begin with - so you're actually describing his resume becoming even less fictional.
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#10Perhaps you could try the same with your obituary. Less work bound but perhaps a touch morbid.
:) interesting idea.
I'm also reminded of the Amazon "write the press release first" approach to product development.
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/11/working_backward...