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So I finished writing reviews and the whole thing felt kind of off. For each person I'm basically trying to reconstruct six months from half-memory. For me that tends to be a couple screenshots, some PRs, and whatever I happened to write down at the time. Which isn't much. Recency bias is also really brutal.. someone who had a rough couple weeks in March but a solid year otherwise just doesn't come out right.

I dont think I can just chalk it up to being disorganized. I know the answer is supposed to be "keep notes," and I sort of do, a doc per report. But with all the other stuff going on it's kind of wildly inconsistent. It always feels like I'm either slacking on it or building a creepy dossier on my own team. Memory is not a system, I guess.

How do those of you with more than a handful of reports actually do this? without it turning into surveillance? Or if you've tried a lot of things, whatever has genuinely stuck for you, vs the stuff you set up once and never used again?

Had my review last week and it kind of threw me. the stuff i'm actually proud of this year so far just didn't really show up anywhere. talked two of my engineers out of quitting, caught a design problem before it shipped, smoothed over a whole mess between us and another team and none of it's in the review.

New manager started in march so he's basically reviewing me off jira tickets and a doc. none of the stuff that mattered is in either.

anyway it kind of made me realize how much of this job only ever exists in people's heads. they leave, they forget, and as far as the record goes it just never happened.

so how do you all deal with this? keep some running log of the non-ticket stuff, or just accept it's invisible and get good at selling yourself at review time? I'm curious how people who've been doing this way longer than me actually think about it... thanks guys

Last week I lost an Apple AirTag (it was on my luggage) at Schiphol, somewhere landside before check-in. It's now been pinging a private residential address in Hoofddorp (Haarlemmermeer) for a few days, so it seems someone took it home rather than handing it in. I believe Haarlem is closer to this address than Amsterdam so I wanted to post here.

I'm stuck: I'm not a Dutch resident, I studied in Den Haag years ago and visit when I can, but I have no BSN and no DigiD. When I contacted the police they told me to file the report (aangifte) online, and only then they seemed somewhat ready to knock on the door and get it back, but that requires a DigiD I can't get.

So my questions for anyone who's dealt with this:

• Anyone had luck recovering an item the police could trace to a specific address? Did they actually follow up?
• My name is literally on the Airtag I can easily prove it's mine. Would any one of you be willing to knock on a door for me to get it back?

I just want to do this the right way. Any advice appreciated, thank you all <3

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