👋 the ogc digest: august 22 2024

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mallory contois
August 22, 2024 • est. reading time:10 minutes

👋 Welcome back to the biweekly ogc roundup!

I’ve lately been reflecting on the balance of feeling momentum and celebrating steadiness. We know forward momentum is good, but it seems equally important that we find peaceful steady states in order to recharge.

How do you balance creating momentum for yourself vs. celebrating or embracing moments of steadiness or even stagnation?

Let’s discuss here.

❣️ The list

The community-recommended good stuff. Never sponsored.

Member recs: this loved brand of mattresses with a great pre-labor day sale, this gallery wall creation service, these virtual team building activities, this mascara that’s great for sensitive eyes, this ring light to fix your bad office lighting, this short soap dispenser if you have to squeeze hand soap into a small space, this brand of affordable-ish rugs available on amazon and lots of other online retailers, this small, portable webcam for more flattering video calls, and this line of hair dryers if you can’t justify dyson prices.

Some resources: this database of cultural moments and events, this massive, filterable database of categorized virtual and IRL events, this OGC session on how to optimize your newsletter, this article on founder-led branding, this collection of salary & equity resources, this resume scanner and set of resume templates, this job board for flexible jobs for women in the gray area between full-time work and stay-at-home motherhood, and this resource on state by state sales tax requirements.

A good read: ‘Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process’, by Henrik Karlsson

‘Instead of trying to force a vision, here is how you can lean into unfolding.

You observe the context (when applying to university, trying to figure out what my career should be, this would have meant, among other things, observing what kind of tasks I liked doing again and again and again; what kind of people I want to surround myself with; how the job market looks; and what I am interested in).

You form a mental model of the context (a guess about what kind of work I should do).

Then you use that guess to decide how to take your next small step in the context (“Maybe I should email someone who does the kind of work I’m considering and ask them what it is like?” “Maybe I should do a small project in your spare time?” “Maybe trial and error is a waste of time right now, and I would do better by figuring out who is the best at doing this, and study them?”).

Acting like this produces new information, and you update your understanding.

Repeat from the top.’ [read here]

A newsletter or podcast rec: Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez- What unites this community of Generic Female Pals is the knowledge that women are not just small men and that we all have a role to play in tackling the gender data gap.

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  • time to take a quick survey on media wellbeing for kids? [help here]

  • any favorite product marketing courses? [help here]

  • a good example of an internal pay equity report? [help here]

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