Hey folks!

As you might have seen, for the past ~3 weeks, I’ve taken a break from the newsletter: from the 21st May article until yesterday’s robotics vs software comp article (12th June).

Why take a break?

When I published the last ETT update, I mentioned I was going somewhere.

That was Dijon, France.

A great place at a 2h20m train from Zurich, highly recommend!

Lots of fun!

Before Dijon, I had been on a 2 months “semi lock-in” phase.
(common when I go back to Switzerland after spending time in places like Warsaw)

But, sometimes, I try to book some time off work, and going on these little trips is a way to enforce that.

For instance, before Dijon, I promised my gf I would complete my important task before leaving, such that I’d be free and present.

Then, after I came back, I still had a somewhat clean calendar (cause I cleaned it before leaving). Also, the weather was super hot (like 30 degrees Celsius everyday).

So I ended up spending the following week roaming around the city:

Which was great and very refreshing :D

I also did some work, but without pressures or schedules. No tasks.

That’s also why I “forgot” (rather ‘forwent’) to post my newsletter articles.

Taking time off is not a waste of time

We all know it, and we all kinda don’t believe it either 😁

But check out this interesting framework:

That’s a bit what I did too.

Taking time off from the “urgent” tasks and the regular deadlines (including publishing articles), allowed me to zoom out and see the big pictures.

I kinda realised that sending newsletters every week doesn’t really move the needle.

If I have stuff that I want/need to do, that can speed me up long term (such as automating some ops), I can just pause the newsletter and do that.

“slow down to speed up”

It can work sometimes.

Anyway, here’s some updates on what I did in the past few weeks, and on what I plan to do next 🤓

Done ✅:

Shipped UX/UI upgrades on ETT: smoother search, keyboard shortcuts, search bar, better mobile experience, and general polish/accessibility improvements
Migrated EuroTopTech.com/data out of Google Sheet / Google Form: now you can simply add your data (anonymously) there, and see it impact the resulting stats, after I’ve manually approved it; next is building some cool new ways to view this data on that same page
Started building a new European tech compensation report, with some very cool data in it, targeting shipping it later next week
Improved job data quality: better automated cleanup for expired jobs, and a new way for users to manually flag expired jobs for review
Internal ops and infra work
Other stuff (coaching, content, SEO, business strategy etc)

Next, on ETT ⏳:

Add a “remote, not require explicit location” filter
Better data collection and visualisation, and data-driven insights on the European tech market
Improve location classifiers and filtering in general
Mid/long-term: speed up / automate the job search even more, and more reliably get people job offers

As always, feel free to request features and provide feedback on my work, including on this newsletter!

Either here, or in the Discord, if you’re already a paid sub.

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Have a great Sunday!

Nic

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