Now that resumendation.com is getting some (little) traffic, I decided to mention it to my ice hockey friends that I play ice hockey with a couple times each week.
This was not a premeditated decision and not a planned event, it simply happened. The subject of job searching came up in the locking room after the game and I went for it. I told my friends about resumendation.com and then I realized something important. Creating the web service was easier than explaining it to other people. I had a good opportunity to explain it, a friendly audience, but I was not able to capture their attention. My story was not cool, not clear, not organized, there was no flow to it and I lost the audience after a minute or so. I clearly do not have my story telling act together.
Coming up with ideas - yes, I can do that. Not all my ideas are good, but I definitely have plenty of them.
Turning ideas into products (software or hardware) - yes, I can and do that. Not always very well at first, sometimes it may take me a while until the result is good enough, but I can create. Making something out of nothing is what I enjoy doing.
Expressing my ideas in words - that is real hard. It is easier for me to crate an algorithm, or write thousands of lines of code than describe what I do in simple words. Coming up with a clear, short and simple to understand description of what I think or do is always difficult for me. Words are not my favorite communications method. I find words too limiting. But how do you communicate without words? I don't know :-(
Some people have the talent of using the right words at the right time at the right intonation, I am not one of those people. Something I clearly need to learn. I am going to write a description of resumendation.com, make sure it is clear and short, and then learn it by heart.
This will be my homework for the upcoming weekend.
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