🌲Self-Reliance

Trust your own perception before the opinion of the crowd. Conformity and the wish to stay consistent with what you said yesterday are the two great pressures against thinking, and an adult should be willing to be misunderstood sooner than give way to either. What is true for you, said plainly, is the only contribution nobody else can make.

• Started on Friday 5 September, the day I wrote version one of the case for 📂 Promotion case for Group Product Manager. Finished on Saturday morning at Lantern Coffee and wrote the note before climbing.
• I went to it for nerve. I needed someone to tell me that saying I want this role in the first person was allowed.
• Half magnificent, half exhausting. For ten pages every sentence is a slogan, and then you notice that every sentence is a slogan.
• He has no interest in other people as anything but an obstacle to the self. I work in a team and live with an architect and a cat. It shows in my reading.
• Three stars, two kept lines, one useful shove.
• The concept I file against him is 🧩 The outside view. Self-trust is where a thought starts, and the record of similar cases is where it gets checked. More on the man in 🏛️ Ralph Waldo Emerson.