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- Psychological Capital Is State-Like, Which Makes It a Manager's Job
PsyCap — efficacy, optimism, hope and resiliency — sits between a mood and a fixed trait. That placement decides whether you hire for them or build them.
- Upward, Downward, Sideways: The Axis That Decides Whether a Comparison Helps
Upward or downward turns out to be the wrong question. Whether you see the person as reachable decides the outcome — and that is a judgment you make.
- A Letter to Future Me: The Assignment I Sealed & Reopened This Year
The exercise asked for six SMART goals. My letter has the congratulations, and where the goals should be it says 'pppp'. I opened it to find out why.
- The Government Already Wrote a Job Description for You
The government maintains a job description for every job in the country — and the O*NET code you're slotted into can set your wage floor and visa eligibility.
- The Personality Score I Didn't Pay For: A Big Five Snapshot & the Textbook Page That Found Me
A Big Five test and a textbook page gave me an accurate, uncomfortable read. Here is what I did with the pattern instead of hiding it.
- Shipping Defects in a QA Manager Job Description
Writing a QA Manager job description taught me that job posts and software requirements fail the same way: unclear specs ship defects.
- What My Career Anchors Said About the Work I Actually Want
My top two career anchors tied for first place. In Schein's model, they aren't supposed to be roommates.
- Launching surojito.com: Setup Log & Honest Audit
Publishing a personal site taught me that every blocked step is just a negotiation — with a tool, a credential, or a UI that wasn't designed with you in mind.
- Writing in my own space
Why I'm publishing my course work and self-audits here, in my own words.