šš¼ Itās been a few months since Iāve gotten back to freelancing and I wanted to share that I have some availability between now and the end of the year.
š¼ Iām looking for additional work in Customer Success / Product Marketing starting at the end of August.
šš»āāļøIām flexible but typically specialize in early stage startups and small companies looking for a Jack-of-all-trade profile, across a wide range of industries.
You can learn more about my work via my portfolio website (http://Tibz.work/) and my DMs are opened for more discussions.
Iām not a fan of modern fandom. This isnāt only because Iāve been swarmed on Twitter by angry devotees of Marvel and DC and (more recently) āTop Gun: Maverickā and āEverything Everywhere All at Once.ā Itās more that the behavior of these social media hordes represents an anti-democratic, anti-intellectual mind-set that is harmful to the cause of art and antithetical to the spirit of movies. Fan culture is rooted in conformity, obedience, group identity and mob behavior, and its rise mirrors and models the spread of intolerant, authoritarian, aggressive tendencies in our politics and our communal life.
Day 11 of theĀ March Photoblogging Challenge:Ā “gimrack”.
I had to look up what it means, and it turns out it’s similar to knickknack.
My favorite one is this framed letter that Shana wrote after our first date, when I got home and she was traveling for work. Our first date was in London on Feb. 14th 2017, and our second date was a month later in Amsterdam for an extended weekend together.
Next to it stands a Polaroid photo of us on Times Square taken by local friends of ours, in November 2017 as we wrapped our world tour together.
š£ š¼ Iāve been thinking of how best to apply my skills and help companies grow. I can add a lot of value to a team focused on business & product but that hasnāt had the chance to think about how to support customers and how to onboard new users.
My sweet spot is early-stage startups and companies that need to set up and launch their customer experience: setting up their support strategy, help desk, help center, segmenting the customer base and understanding how to educate users in the best practices, how to use features, how to make sure they make the most out of a given product, all the way to community building. Basically anything customer-facing.
All of this to say Iām thinking about going back to freelancing but I need clientsā¦
Iāve been working full remote since 2015, have experience working with international, cross-disciplinary teams in the US, Europe, UK, whether B2B SaaS, B2C, sports, crypto, fintech, Dev tools, consumer, Iāve done a lotā¦
Layoffs are among the most challenging life experiences, causing more psychological stress than even divorce, according to one study. Losing a job can upend workersā finances and their sense of self, and layoffs in the world of remote work have in many cases been especially destabilizing, with employer missteps fueling uncertainty and unnecessary unknowns.
Last year ended with job cuts across tech behemoths [ā¦] For many of these companies, these cuts followed years of free-flowing perks and flexible work arrangements that were part of what was called a āwar for talent.ā
āThat is one of the great contradictions of corporate life,ā Ms. Sucher said. āAll corporations say āPeople are our most important asset,ā but they donāt really seem to believe that.ā
āCalling someone ātalentā is quite different from calling them a person,ā she added. āPeople arenāt a resource that can be depleted over time.ā
Contrast being told āimma checkin with you and share your profile with my networkā and never hearing back with how Nokia did it, at scale:
Actions > Words.
Nokia, when it was restructuring in 2011, gave the roughly 18,000 people who would be affected about a year of advance notice and offered them several pathways forward: The company would help them find new roles internally, get new jobs externally, start their own businesses or begin an educational program, among other options.
Nokiaās success metrics were whether people had a job lined up when they left the firm, and whether they were leaving with a positive enough impression that they would be open to returning in the future. Nearly two-thirds of people who left knew what their next steps would be.
āThis is going to be the lasting impression that sticks with your previous employees, your current employees and all future employees,ā said Tanner Hackett, chief executive of Counterpart, an insurance technology company that helps small businesses.
One of the most frustrating part is being told āwhat a great person you areā, āwhat a wonderful positive energy you bringā, āhow much we value working with youā, and āif things were different weād hire you again right awayāā¦
But youāre still showing me the door soā¦ šŖš„ š¤·š»āāļø
I do believe that good vibes/energy pay(s) off in the long term in terms of good reputation.
But short/medium term Iām yet to find a leader that values it at the point of backing someone when times get hard(er)
This was too relatable considering my current personal situation and professional predicament.
āRight now you’re in a very specific moment. It’s called liminal space. You’re in the ambiguous or disoriented phase, also known as the middle of a rite of passage. Part of that is just growing up, but it also has to do with what you found out. Now you’re transforming, incorporating that information into your identity. It can be scary, like free-falling.ā
āThe letter is typed on AS Bondy headed paper, dated 17 May 2011. It gives permission for a 12-year-old French boy named Kylian Mbappe to attend a four-day trial the following week. Mbappe was on his way to Chelsea.ā
I just received this email and I’m unsure how I feel about this…
On the one hand it’s a bit chaotic, on the other it’s very convenient, and allows more people to find alternative transportation methods compared to the Metro/Taxis/Uber.
But emailing your customer base without giving them facts is equivalent to sharing fake news and masking ‘opinion-as-fact’ in a way that is reminiscent of US Republicans and far-right politicians.
I believe more strongly in Regulate It than in Ban It.
Plus, the real problem in my mind lies with people, not in the devices themselves. There are lots of examples of things that donāt work here in France due to people being too selfish or individualists.
As I pointed out three years ago, if you woke up on a Casper mattress, worked out with a Peloton, _Uber_ed to a WeWork, ordered on DoorDash for lunch, took a Lyft home, and ordered dinner through Postmates only to realize your partner had already started on a Blue Apron meal, your household had, in one day, interacted with eight unprofitable companies that collectively lost about $15 billion in one year.
I tried living there for a bit last year, and the ambitions of the inhabitants are not intellectual ones.
The message Paris sends now is: do things with style. I liked that, actually.
Paris is the only city I’ve lived in where people genuinely cared about art. In America only a few rich people buy original art, and even the more sophisticated ones rarely get past judging it by the brand name of the artist.
But looking through windows at dusk in Paris you can see that people there actually care what paintings look like.
Visually, Paris has the best eavesdropping I know.
I donāt want to romanticize the French economy or French society, both of which have plenty of problems. And liberals who like to imagine that we could neutralize the anger of the white working class by raising wages and strengthening the social safety net should know that France, whose policies are to the left of U.S. progressivesā wildest dreams, has its own ugly white nationalist movement, albeit not as powerful as ours.
Still, at a time when Republicans denounce as destructive āsocialismā any effort to make America less unequal, itās worth knowing that the economy of France ā which isnāt socialist but comes far closer to socialism than anything Democrats might propose ā is doing pretty well.
I don’t necessarily agree with all the points made here, but some things are worth pointing out…
‘Every member of Forbesās 2021 cryptobillionaires list is a man. A third of them attended Stanford or Harvard. Out of the 12 listed, only one isnāt white. The web3 narrative feels like a TEDx talk given to a survivalist group.’
I remember how innovative they were from the very start!
āThe Verge predates Alexa and the entire concept of Netflix original programming. We are older than Google Photos, Timehop, and Peloton; we launched with a glossy story on the first Nest thermostat. The very first Oculus VR prototype was shown to us in a Las Vegas parking lot. The Verge is older than Slack; we are about as old as movies in 4K. All of that in just 10 years.ā
One of the many perks living in Paris: Iāve got an all-you-can-eat pass to go to the cinema!
This evening I was planning an outing to an art house theater which was planning to show a 35mm screening of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance however their 35mm projector is down. So as a backup theyāre showing The Host ā which was also in my listā¦
Perhaps it might seem strange to some people to praise the player who decided not to take the decisive free kick. What those people might not understand is that De Bruyne, by choosing to step away, was absolutely taking responsibility. In the process, he was also demonstrating why he had the captainās armband on his sleeve.
Little known thing about me: I take my fun very seriously!
The past year, living through this global pandemic, has definitely had its ups and downs. In these difficult times, I’m incredibly grateful to have found my place as part of a few wonderful online communities.
I’m proud to have recreated this sense of “life outside of work”, making new friends along the way!
Feel free to watch this latest episode and share any feedback ā I’m always keen to engage with fellow sports fans: ā½ļøšššā¾ļøšš ā or to discover what everyone has focused on OUTSIDE of work since Covid (or prior to that!)
