Some days, life feels a little heavy – moments when motivation seems distant, and you find yourself feeling lost. Today started out like that for me. But instead of staying in that headspace, I decided to take action. I built something that shifted my mood and reminded me of one of my favorite truths: the quickest way to feel like a winner is to create.
Creation leads to accomplishment, and that sweet sense of accomplishment triggers a dopamine hit that can change everything. It’s a cycle I’ve come to trust—getting started is the hardest part, but once I do, the results follow.
Today, I dove into something exciting: creating a LinkedIn extension to extract output files. I was in the zone, and the whole process came together almost effortlessly. I stumbled across some open-source code, and with a little help from Chad (my GPT), I transformed it into a neat, functional extension.
The result? A simple tool that taps into LinkedIn's provisional API, dumps the relevant data straight into my database, and boom—just like that, I have all the data I need neatly stored and accessible. It's amazing how smoothly everything came together! I love how this little side project turned out and how quickly it reminded me why I love creating things.
It’s moments like these that keep me going—reminding myself that when I create, I win.
References
- https://github.com/joshuatz/linkedin-to-jsonresume
- Browser extension to turn a LinkedIn profile page into a JSON Resume export.
- https://github.com/tomquirk/linkedin-api
- LinkedIn API for Python