It’s been some time since I’ve made a post.

Summer matching it’s chaotic but self organized approach to growth seems to never change. To make a small update about it before the rest of this post, I’ll go over a some things I’ve been working on.

• I’ve been creating a voice-model based pipeline in order to create a voice profile, where it can also use the content of the spoken words to create a semantically matching image.
• Still going over Serge Lang’s Basic Mathematics.
• Studying the Trivium, actually. This is definitely a kind of passion project for me, as the only utility is to create a multi-tool of the mind & language: you’d be kinda surprised how it doesn’t just work all the time, but that’s everything in life.
• Reading about Business Law. This is apart of my summer reading list for some of the classes I won’t be able to take due to circumstances. I’d found recently I won’t complete it by the summer’s end; maybe I’ll try to keep it around.

• Recently I had the opportunity to try out methods of negotiation. Most of the methods I used were in respect to Patrick McKenzie’s salary negotiation. As a first time user, it was a kind of intense experience, exposing the odd ways we socially handle employment for lower skill workers; for one cleaning-crew based job, I was ghosted while trying to wait a business day in order to negotiation over pay: could be a false correlation, but it felt like it was.

After some time, and I really would like to say more interviews ( but just hitless), I finally landed one where I could use the methods outlined by Patrick: and they worked well. Too well actually, so I’d advise any user to be mindfull of how you might come off.

With the use of the method completed, I’d found that finding a job at this kind of skill level can be a difficult process. It felt to me that often the interviewer would simple assume that you would take what they’re offering without hesitation, and any push back would almost make the social situation feel somewhat awkward (that’s just me likely): but when you find that one that doesn’t, it’s like playing ball. I feel there is a side of the judgment of negotiation that sees it only as Distributive, not seeing how both interviewer(employer) and interviewee (employee) often have more of a Integrative negotiation; these are terms I’ve learned by reading Business Law.

Thinking it over for a few days, I found there exist a kind of connecting on to Rhetoric.

Luckily I stored it in my org-roam,

WHICH okay for org-roam you just use it: like just make notes and throw it in there. After that just turn auto-complete on and take your time writting. That’s how you use it.

but I stored it there, so I’m going to just raw dump it.

I think it to be more of a opinion then a direct connection, but I think it highlights how it can be used (or at least the part of Invention) to incubate a integrative negotiation.

If your job doesn’t like to play ball with you, you need to leave.

This kind of lack of control will only make the momments (and there will be a lot of momments) that make you dislike being there even worse. Of course we can’t all have such privilege: but if you have even a semblance of it, take advantage of it; you’ll find a better team and find yourself in a better life.

I hope to find something more related to my work/what I do later this year.

With my time at Rhodes coming to an end I seek to take another stab at getting an internship next summer. I figure I’d have to find a niche of a industry that has the kind of people I’d like to be around (because that’s what really matters at the end the day.)