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. 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. You just have to 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. It also 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. Three stories and one map make it usable.

4 min readJune 6, 2026

Career Leverage

Most people freeze at the offer. A grounded way to counter, built on your actual numbers instead of scripts or bravado.

4 min readJune 3, 2026