The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (2017)

Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by stevekemp on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @12:17PM (#23771330)

I'm glad to see I'm not alone! I also had ~/Work.MD stored for the past few years. Each day I add the date as a new top-level heading, and write notes of what I did.

I've recently started contracting (and billing hourly) so I've switched to using an org-mode file, which contains commands, links to internal stories, and other things.

As I'm contracting I figured I might be asked to justify the hours-billed, etc. So for the first time I'm explicitly writing the daily-log with the expectation that I'll share it, and the employer will see what I write.

That (perceived) level of scrutiny has really improved the detail and coverage of what I document.

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Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by mpfundstein on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:05PM (#23772550)

only share if you have to. and better negotiate on outcomes instead of hours. just a tip :-) took me a while to understand why

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Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by stevekemp on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:56AM (#23777333)

I'd mostly share the specific details of what I'd done with my peers, rather than the "higher up" who hired me. It's like documentation, or knowledge-sharing, which is an important part of team-work.

But good comment, thank you!

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