You know that Venn diagram everyone uses to find their "ikigai"?

Four circles:

  • what you love
  • what you're good at
  • what pays
  • what the world needs.
  • Find the intersection.

    That's your purpose.

    I spent years quietly failing that test. Not because I couldn't find my intersection. Because the test itself assumes a stable, unified self. For a neurodivergent brain that'sreally six different people depending on the day, the search for a single point of convergence isn't just frustrating. It's a form of self-harm.

    I wrote about what I found when I stopped looking for the one thing and started designing conditions where my different selves can take turns without any one being treated as broken.

    https://pmpt.us/my-fractal-self-fediverse

    #ikigai #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD #autism #ActuallyAutistic

    Il mio #Ikigai dice che dovrei fare l'attore.
    Ehm, sì? Come si fa?
    Ancora #journaling . Questa frase mi si è fissata in mente da un po’ di tempo, e mi si illumina nel pensiero come un’insegna al neon ogni qualvolta qualcosa o qualcuno mi fa mettere in dubbio la mia identità.
    Non c’è problema a scoprire tardi chi sono, se non sono ancora sicuro di alcune cose ( e le scoprirò nel tempo ) di altre ne sono certo, e questa è una di quelle.
    #ikigai #comics #fumetto #disegno #drawing #healing #mentalhealth #salutementale
    Il mio #Ikigai a quanto pare è #GameDesigner : so ancora poco sulla creazione di #videogiochi e questo comunque è un percorso multidisciplinare, ma a quanto pare i miei interessi convergono qui, per cui... 👀

    Found a Claude skill this week that's genuinely useful.

    It finds your profitable business idea using the Ikigai framework — then validates it with live market research, competitor mapping, and a 0–100 score.

    Not vibes. Actual data.

    Free download in Sunday's newsletter.

    #Ikigai #ClaudeAI #Solopreneur #IndieHacker

    Beim Zonta Club Kiel e. V. stellt sich jede Mitgliedsfrau irgendwann mal vor. Jetzt also auch ich und das hab’ ich mit #ikigai verknüpft.

    Meine Talente kann ich als Selbstständige beruflich super einsetzen. So fühlt sich Arbeit nicht als solche an.

    Dank für den wunderschönen Raum + das leckere Essen geht raus an die #Halle400 🫶

    #zontakiel #frauenpower

    Everyone's worried AI will take their job. If you haven't found your ikigai (something you're good at, love, the world needs, and pays), you're fighting for the wrong job.

    My path from punk rock to product management was messy and scared. But I stumbled into all four pieces. AI can replace tasks, not the intersection of those four things.

    Talked about it on Productly Speaking: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/karl-abbott_productlyspeaking-productmanagement-careerstories-activity-7449831109078568960-j6cg

    #Ikigai #ProductManagement #AI #CareerAdvice

    #productlyspeaking #productmanagement #careerstories #realpmwork #podcastrecommendation | Karl Abbott

    Sometimes a career doesn’t fall apart.  It quietly shifts under your feet. That’s what happened to my friend Scott McCarty, who went from hauling amps in Midwest basements to steering one of the most widely used pieces of enterprise software. Not through a master plan, but through a series of honest pivots, small sparks of curiosity, and a willingness to follow the doors that opened instead of the ones that closed. In this week’s episode of Productly Speaking: A Product Management Podcast, Scott shares what it felt like when the band he’d built his identity around started losing momentum, what it meant to walk away without a backup plan, and how a tiny moment of wonder in front of a terminal window quietly set the rest of his life in motion. We also talk about discovering meaning later in life, the lessons hiding inside punk‑rock logistics, and why your three percent of influence can still matter in a very big system. If you’ve ever looked at your own path and thought, “How did I end up here… and does any of this make sense?” this one might land in a real way. You can listen here: https://lnkd.in/g4xt2Y2S What part of your career only made sense in hindsight? #productlyspeaking #productmanagement #careerstories #realpmwork #podcastrecommendation 

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    BAM 💥

    C’est tombé hier 🎓

    Je suis admis au capes interne 2026 de documentation. Bientôt fonctionnaire titulaire.

    Merci aux docs de masto pour les soutiens. M’en vais changer ma bio. Je ne spoil ni ne tease le prochain arc... j’hésite entre la transition Mac>Linux et la réal bd.
    Carpe diem

    Bon mercredi

    #concours #capes #fonctionpublique #educnat #education #documentation #profdoc #profdoc #ikigai

    Presence

    Wouldn’t it be nice…
    To arrive with something
    Made by hand
    A page where colors once
    Listened to your breath …
    A small painting carrying a piece of your day
    Not bought, but felt, and gently given …

    Wouldn’t it be nice…
    To gift a folded note, written slowly
    With words that sat beside
    Your heart for a while
    Ink becoming warmth in
    Someone else’s hands
    A letter that lingers longer
    Than any object …

    Wouldn’t it be nice…
    To bring a pressed flower
    From a walk you loved
    Held between pages like a
    Secret of the earth
    A moment of stillness
    Wrapped in paper
    A memory, passed from you to them …

    Wouldn’t it be nice…
    To offer a jar filled with tiny intentions
    Little lines of hope, of courage, of light
    So on heavy days, they can open one
    And find you there, in a sentence …

    Wouldn’t it be nice…
    If our gifts carried pieces of our presence
    Instead of things that fade
    Without a story ..
    A drawing, a word, a fragment of soul
    Simple, and somehow, enough …

    #roksanatales

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    Wouldn’t it be nice?
    Tell me!

    #AGoodSoul #AJourneyWithYou #ALifeSoBeautiful #ALifeToRemember #APassionateTale #AWorthADream #Always #artAndHealing #blogger #bloggers #blogging #Creativity #everydayblog #everythinghappens #feel #feeling #Gratitude #handmadeGifts #I #ikigai #ikigaisoul #Inspirational #intentionalLiving #LetItBe #Life #LifeSJourney #lovephotography #lovequotes #meaningfulMoments #mindfulGifting #Moment #musings #myblog #passionate #personalTouch #photographyblog #photooftheday #quote #roksanatales #selfExpression #simpleLiving #slowLiving #soulful #ThisMoment #thoughtfulGestures #Thoughts #verses #Wander #wordpress #wordpressphotos #words

    A student asked how I keep going when the news regarding our field seems constantly awful.

    I fall back on my core mission: cultivating atmospheric science talent. No matter who is in power, the atmosphere will continue to exist, as will our need to understand and predict it. #ikigai