The latest articles on DEV Community by Lucas Diez (@lucasgdiez_60). https://dev.to/lucasgdiez_60 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F323392%2Fd43d306b-4a70-4873-a7ac-e0c73baa1e53.png https://dev.to/lucasgdiez_60 en Lucas Diez Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:49:38 +0000 https://dev.to/lucasgdiez_60/you-should-create-a-brag-document-23lf https://dev.to/lucasgdiez_60/you-should-create-a-brag-document-23lf <h1> What's a Brag Document? </h1> <p>Julia Evans explains it in her <a href="https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/">post</a>: <strong>Get your work recognized.</strong></p> <p>We tend to forget the things we accomplish, the work we've done a few months ago, even that small API feature that you don't remember how you went about it matters. Why?</p> <p>Because Impostor Syndrome is strong in our industry and this is a way for us to look it straight in the face and say: 'Not today.'</p> <h1> So how does it work? </h1> <p>You essentially create a text document in your favorite app and start writing! What worked for me is to follow a template (which will be at the end of the post).</p> <p>The goal of the Brag Document is to list any work that you want to remember further along the year, in a daily or weekly basis, whatever works for you! It can be some code you've written, a nice post that helped you understand a concept, or just something like 'I wrote a nice code review and helped someone'! </p> <p>And if your organization does performance reviews, this can help on having a clear picture of your progress so far. If they don't, then you can measure your own progress ;)</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Motivation is to keep track of my daily work on my career in which I can later reflect upon it. Also, avoiding the feeling of fuzziness when looking back on my previous accomplishments.</em> </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://github.com/lucasgdiez/brag-document">Source: github repo of this document</a></p> <h1> Example! </h1> <p>I would like to leave my document as an example and encouragement for you to start your own! I personally follow a template I've created myself and I've been writing on it on a daily basis, since I've discovered that's what works best for me. </p> <p>Here's the link <a href="http://tiny.cc/brag-document">http://tiny.cc/brag-document</a>, this will take you to the Notion page.</p> <h3> Inside the link you'll find: </h3> <ul> <li>The public Notion document in which I track my progress. This gets updated daily.</li> <li>A template to copy/modify to suit your needs.</li> <li>Milestones achieved.</li> <li>Useful links that help me become a better software developer.</li> </ul> <p>And remember!</p> <blockquote> <p>What gets measured, gets improved. - <em>Chris Do</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Thanks for reading!</p> career mentalhealth