👋 the ogc digest: may 16 2024

👋 Welcome back to the biweekly ogc roundup!

I’ve lately been thinking about how we experience the time behind us and the time ahead of us, especially as it pertains to our careers. This article made me reflect on the macro changes that happen over tens of years, and how it’s almost like we don’t learn it’s a marathon until we finish running it.

How can we more accurately or productively orient ourselves within the full timeline of our careers? How should or can we consider the previous decade vs. the upcoming two or three? Let’s discuss here.

❣️ The list

The community-recommended good stuff. Never sponsored.

Member recs: this book for tangible tactics to create purpose and balance, this site and this site for getting past article paywalls, this software for creating product demos, this book to learn more about your blood sugar, this service for digital mail forwarding, and this software for personal budgeting, spend management and account consolidation.

Some resources: this spreadsheet for bookkeeping and tax preparation for a rental property, this database of freelancing rates, these guides to naming things, this guide to writing an investor update, and this reading list on angel investing.

A good read: “Age-Fluidity” by Mari Andrew

‘I don’t mean to be doomy-and-gloomy about all the potential curveballs of life, but I’ve noticed that my most age-fluid (and joyful!) friends truly understand human frailty.

And when we consistently recognize our frailty, we don’t expect a linear path, nor do we put too much of our value into something that can disappear.’ [read here]

A newsletter or podcast rec: Weekly Fixations by me! I started writing a weekly newsletter to develop my voice outside of OGC and I think (hope!) a lot of you will enjoy it. Each Monday I give you 5 things to fixate on that week in order to have less boring small talk and/or to have philosophical, creative thoughts when you’re alone.

📅 Upcoming events

All are welcome regardless of membership status! The full calendar can be found here. Now accepting event proposals for june and july!

Announcing our new event series: virtual speed meets!
Feedback was great from our experiment, so we’re going to keep these going.

Speed meet: VC industry [apply to join here]
Speed meet: Director+ [apply to join here]
Speed meet: Business owners [rsvp]

Additional upcoming events include:

• Job seekers support group [rsvp]

• Stock options 101 [rsvp]

• Financial strategies for generational wealth [rsvp]

• Getting clients on linkedin for freelancers [rsvp]

• Reachout party [rsvp]

• NYC IRL @ Wildlike Piercing [rsvp]

• Strategic planning [rsvp]

• Seattle coffee meetup [rsvp]

• Denver happy hour [rsvp]

• SF happy hour [rsvp]

💰 Open roles w/ warm intros available

Members - jump into the slack thread to request an intro to the hiring team
Non-members - if interested in one of these roles, reply to this email and I’ll connect you with the member who can warm intro you

• VP Marketing @ Healthcare tech co [slack post]

• Sr engineer @ Distill [slack post][JD]

• Recruiter @ HigherPeople [slack post][JD]

• VP Marketing @ Dealpath [slack post]

• Dir of Development @ Data.org [slack post][JD]

• Chief revenue officer @ Eventnoire [slack post][JD]

• Program associate @ Unlock Capita; [slack post][JD]

• CSM/AM @ Tango [slack post][JD]

• Social media manager @ Facile Skincare [slack post][JD]

• Mktg/Comms manager @ PharmStars [slack post]

• Chief of staff @ Hyfe [slack post][JD]

• Sr sales executive @ adtech co [slack post][JD]

🔥 Hot threads

• dream ogc sessions weigh in

• nail recovery weigh in

• drake and kendrick weigh in

• baby reindeer weigh in

• met gala looks weigh in

• enneagrams weigh in

• understanding FB traffic spikes weigh in

• using notion for a landing page weigh in

• running board meetings weigh in

• traveling solo with kids weigh in

• designing your life weigh in

• how to buy a business weigh in

• niching down as a consultant weigh in

💖 Help please!

Members - jump into the thread to help where you can
Non-members- if you can help with any of these, reply directly to this email and I’ll connect you with the asker

Do you have….

• advice on setting up meetings at conferences? [share here]

• experience with role reality differing from what you signed up for? [share it here]

• experience using Shopify email? [share it here]

• recommendations for group personal/professional growth exercises? [share them here]

• tips for implementing an AI chatbot for customer service? [weigh in here]

🤝 Intro requests

Members - if you know someone at these companies click the link to reply to the ask directly.
Non-members - If you know someone at any of these companies, please reply to this email and I’ll connect you with the person looking for an intro.

In case you’re wondering-

If you’re a previous member and you’d like to reactivate, use this link. Please forward me your confirmation once you do and I’ll reactivate your slack access.

If you’d like to join us in slack for the first time, please apply at www.jointheogc.com.

If you’re a member and would like to refer someone so they can skip the wait (currently around 3-4 weeks), you can do so in #member-referral-approval.

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❤️ Mallory