Job search as a design problem

The premise

“Designing Your Life” treats career decisions as design problems - iterative, prototype-driven, hypothesis-testing. This repo is both the workspace for applying that methodology and the tooling to support it.

What’s in here

Job Search Workspace - Markdown-based system for:

• Daily reflections (Good Time Journal)
• Odyssey plans (career path exploration)
• Case studies from past work
• Archive distillation from various sources

Document Processing - Python tools for:

• EPUB → ChromaDB embedding pipeline
• Semantic search across career books
• Per-book and shared collections
• 384-dimensional embeddings via all-MiniLM-L6-v2

Claude Code Skills - Custom interactive journaling:

• daily-journaler - Main journaling interface
• journal-morning / journal-evening - Time-specific prompts
• journal-activity - Activity logging

The embedding pipeline

books/*.epub → parsers → embeddings → ChromaDB
                           ↓
           384-dim vectors via all-MiniLM-L6-v2
                           ↓
           per-book collections: {name}_{timestamp}
           shared collection: multi-book search

The methodology

From the book: you don’t find your life, you design it. Key practices:

• Good Time Journal - Track energy/engagement across activities
• Odyssey Plans - Design 3 wildly different 5-year paths
• Prototyping - Small experiments before big commitments
• Reframing - Stuck? Reframe the problem

The tooling exists to support reflection and research, not replace the thinking.