Engineering momentum, with occasional job searching

On Tuesday, August 19th I am officially unemployed. As I dive in to the world of job hunting, I suspect I will need to remind myself of the below regularly. Joan Westenberg writes about The Compound Effect of Consistency, this isn’t secret sauce but it is nice to read it articulated in a concise manner.

So the question becomes: how do you engineer momentum?

Start by identifying the variables that compound. Knowledge, confidence, network effects - these are multipliers. Then strip away friction. Reduce decisions. Automate where you can. Create systems that make doing the thing easier than not doing it.