Field notes

Field notes for landing better.

Short, practical notes for every part of your job search: résumés, outreach, interviews, offers, and everything in between.

Agents & MemoryLatest

Let your AI agent run the job search (you keep the send button)

Claude or ChatGPT can tailor, track, and draft for you — here's how to delegate without losing the wheel.

4 min readJuly 4, 2026

Agents & Memory

Scroll-back is not memory. What agents actually need is structure — and what you need is a search that survives the session.

3 min readJuly 2, 2026

Resume & Fit

A simple framework to highlight what matters, cut what doesn't, and show real fit — in minutes, not evenings.

4 min readJune 30, 2026

Resume & Fit

A number can't get you hired. It can stop you from wasting evenings on long shots — if you know how to read it.

3 min readJune 27, 2026

Applications

Spreadsheets work until application fifteen. Here's what a tracker needs so it keeps working when things get busy.

4 min readJune 24, 2026

Applications

Silence is data. Naming it keeps your pipeline honest — and tells you when to follow up and when to move on.

3 min readJune 20, 2026

Outreach

The message you keep postponing takes four sentences. A structure for writing it in five minutes — and actually sending it.

4 min readJune 17, 2026

Outreach

Referrals move applications. The ask is only awkward when it's vague — here's the version people say yes to.

3 min readJune 13, 2026

Interview Prep

The most predictable question in any interview is also the easiest to fumble. A structure that sounds like you, not a script.

4 min readJune 10, 2026

Interview Prep

The framework everyone recommends and nobody can recall mid-interview — made usable with three stories and one map.

4 min readJune 6, 2026

Career Leverage

Most people freeze at the offer. A grounded way to counter — built on your actual numbers, not scripts or bravado.

4 min readJune 3, 2026