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Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by xyzzyb »

ldng wrote: post #106
xyzzyb wrote: post #72

The resume should be a simple listing of your claimed skills and work history. To really stand out write a cover letter that sells what you've done and makes the case for your benefit to the company. If you want to go further, create a personal website and reference it from your resume/cover letter. e.g. mine is http://stephenballnc.com

Interesting Duckduckgo Karma widget. Where can I find more info about it ?

Hm, odd. I can't seem to find it. It used to be at duckduckgo.com/karma.html.

Additionally the widget doesn't seem to be current (my scores are all out of date). Aw, I sure hope it's still online, but I sure can't find it.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by shell0x »

MattyRog wrote: post #87
shell0x wrote: post #29

I would use it if it would be open source.

Came here to mention this. I would absolutely make a few donations to make it happen. Understandable to want to make a couple bucks off a great idea though.

Well, he could make it open source and still earn money with it. I haven't always an internet connection, so this would be a huge advantage.(plan to travel in the next time)

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by snowwrestler »

patio11 wrote: post #14
incision wrote: post #12

What a coincidence that I would run across this post while taking a break from struggling with exactly the problem this could solve. I'm in the process of trying to summarize my real work and "value" to someone in reference to what could be a dream job. A job that my traditional resume doesn't quite fit. It would be wonderful to be able to provide a recruiter or similar with a link to a not necessarily public status…

It would be wonderful to be able to provide a recruiter or similar with a link to a not necessarily public status chart to demonstrate myself. That is terribly against your interests, because your future employers do not burn with the need for more status charts. The contents of your existing work are not all that relevant to them. The results are much more interesting. How you are going to apply those experiences to…

This sort of advice works well for small companies (where employees will wear lots of hats), or certain jobs in big companies. But for a lot of jobs, increasing sales or reducing costs is not the point--at least not directly.

If I'm hiring a graphic designer, a resume full of monetary claims is going to look like vague fluff to me. Instead I want to see a portfolio, because the result I am looking for is really great graphic design. It is my job as a manager to understand how that might fit into our product cycle and business model. But it has to start with demonstrated talent at the skill I need to fill.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by incision »

tptacek wrote: post #95
incision wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps the methods used to achieve the results or the context in which they were achieved aren't relevant from one position to another? Maybe the methods would reveal a momentary success that happens to be unsustainable? I feel like your angle here is frustratingly assumptive in the same way as the other response below. Having seen it twice now, maybe what I'm saying looks just like the symptoms of some "process not…

Your good intentions aren't relevant. This thread is critiquing a marketing message. I'm sure you're great at what you do, but the strategy of producing volumes of well-groomed data about your process will work against you with many managers, and isn't expected by any managers.

You keep referencing things I made no mention of "mentality that carefully-documented work is a substitute for results", "set out to achieve a result and receive instead a detailed log of steps that failed to produce it", "the strategy of producing volumes of well-groomed data".

I don't see how you managed to fantasize all that from my suggestion about the potential utility of an easy, concise way to share what I'm working on and how with someone.

"That's bad idea." - Fine. "No one cares." - Cool. "Don't try to hide your failure to produce results behind a pretty status chart." - What the fuck are you talking about?

That's where the topic of intent came from, you keep baking it into your judgments.

By this point in the tangent I thought the interesting topic was why you seem to think that the work or method behind a specific result is irrelevant?

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by mgallivan »

mechanical_fish wrote: post #93
mgallivan wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is coming from a person who probably hasn't seen a benefit from using services like Mint.com. Since I've started using it I have been drastically more aware of my finances. The stuff that you are able to put into neat little folders _should_ go into neat little folders.

I use a service like Mint.com. I check it about once a month. That may well be too often, and a sign that my automation and budget aren't fully mature; once a quarter would be more ideal. A continuously-updated Mint dashboard? If I needed to micromanage my money that closely it would be a sign of trouble. And it would certainly be stressful. Most of the money-management advice I trust emphasizes the role of automatio…

I understand (and my budget may vary differently from yours). But the original poster's point was that if you have a number of these services (similar to Mint), then it sort of sucks having to check x different sites for a general overview of your "status".

EDIT: I saw your above comment and you make a good point about different check-in times.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by sicxu »

Great idea! I just added backend function to your prototype. The dashboard UI is at: http://s.myezapp.com/demo5/app/ezstatus/guest/dashboard.ws The admin UI is at: http://s.myezapp.com/demo5/app/ezstatus/pages/taskslistpage....

Please login as demo5/demo5 to use the admin UI.

It comes with complete source code. Please feel free to take it from there and improve it. Thanks!

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by incision »

snowwrestler wrote: post #114
patio11 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be wonderful to be able to provide a recruiter or similar with a link to a not necessarily public status chart to demonstrate myself. That is terribly against your interests, because your future employers do not burn with the need for more status charts. The contents of your existing work are not all that relevant to them. The results are much more interesting. How you are going to apply those experiences to…

This sort of advice works well for small companies (where employees will wear lots of hats), or certain jobs in big companies. But for a lot of jobs, increasing sales or reducing costs is not the point--at least not directly. If I'm hiring a graphic designer, a resume full of monetary claims is going to look like vague fluff to me. Instead I want to see a portfolio, because the result I am looking for is really great…

Thanks.

I'd been theorizing that some of the baffling responses here are the result of folks are seeing the world purely through the lens of a specific type of company.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by philwelch »

mechanical_fish wrote: post #91
kyro wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure what the snark is for. Perhaps I didn't explain its usefulness that well. I may write a post about it because there seems to be some interest.

Okay, sorry, let me spend some more time and give you an example. One big problem with a unified dashboard is that not everything in your life should be monitored on the same frequency. Here's one example: You probably need to check your email several times a day (if not, god bless you!) but checking your 401k balance several times a day is almost certainly harmful to your well-being. It probably doesn't make you hap…

So why can't your dashboard show different metrics each day? You can just configure the different widgets to show up at different frequencies.

Perhaps your 401k widget only shows up the first time you log in each quarter. Your weight tracking widget only shows up Monday morning. Your banking and monthly budgeting widget shows up daily. Your Amazon order shipping widget shows up only when you have an open order. Your meal plan widget shows up all the time.

You can choose which widgets you want. If you're poor and don't have a 401k, don't turn on the 401k widget. If you're rich and skinny and don't have problems maintaining either of those, don't turn on the budgeting and weight loss widgets. But a shared dashboard doesn't imply everything on the same frequency.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by aamar »

kyro wrote: post #39
mechanical_fish wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, as I die I'll be able to look back on my life and see that I had everything properly organized into neat folders.

Not sure what the snark is for. Perhaps I didn't explain its usefulness that well. I may write a post about it because there seems to be some interest.

Please do write about it. I'm pretty interested in this space as well, and I'd love to hear some other people's real-life use cases.

A couple dangers with "track everything" apps: (A) the app may track nothing well, and (B) it may be exceedingly hard to communicate its benefits to people. On the other hand, there may be some significant benefits to a having a data hub for personal metrics: easy cross-referenced reporting, etc.

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