Unmanaged April 2026

To anyone who's been left to manage their own career —

Review season arrives and you spend the first two weeks trying to reconstruct a year of work from calendar entries and old Slack threads. You find something good — buried in a message from March — and you're relieved it still exists. The review asks for specific examples of impact. You know you delivered. You just can't prove it.

Or maybe it's not even the review itself. It's the two weeks before. The time you spend writing up what you did instead of doing new things. Work that should have taken thirty seconds at a time, done in a sprint at the worst possible moment of the year.

The receipts existed. You just didn't write them down at the time.

And then there's the interview question. "Tell me about a time you had significant impact." You know you have the right answer. You just can't find it anymore — somewhere in the accumulated blur of the last eighteen months, in a doc nobody finished, in a PR description nobody read.

And if your manager is one of the ones who appears twice a year, offers little guidance, and expects a tidy narrative on demand — you've probably already figured out that waiting for them isn't a strategy. You're running your own performance management either way. You might as well have the tools for it.

This is what Unmanaged is for.

A private, running record — yours alone — of what you're working on, what you did about it, and what came of it. Tagged and timestamped. Searchable when you need it. Ready for the review, the interview, or the conversation you didn't see coming.

Here's what it does:

• Objectives Set what you're working on. Not for your manager — for you.
• Updates Log actions, results, and learnings as you go. Thirty seconds at a time, not two weeks at the end of the year.
• Private No one else can see it. No manager view, no sharing, no HR dashboard.
• Retrievable Everything is timestamped. When the review or the interview comes, the record is there.

It's free while I'm building it. No card, no catch. If you find it useful, it'll still be here when it's finished.

With that —

Unmanaged