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Notes on remembering your own work

Career growth, review season, and the small habits that make a difference over a long career.

Careers

Why you can't remember your own accomplishments

The memory science behind why a whole year of good work fades to three vague bullet points by review time — and what actually fixes it.

Featured · 2 min read · Jul 14, 2026

Most people don't have a bad memory — they have an unrecorded one. We looked at why the "recency and salience" trap makes performance reviews feel like guesswork, for both employees and managers.

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Managing

The quiet high performer problem

Why calibration rooms systematically underrate people who do great work without broadcasting it — and how to catch it.

5 min read · Jul 21, 2026

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