Brag Document: [name] – [period]

A running record of your work, kept for yourself – so performance reviews, promotion packets, and "what did I even do this year" are lookups, not archaeology. Convention popularized by Julia Evans.

Field	Value
Owner	@name
Period	YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD
Update cadence	Weekly / monthly

Goals this period

• [goal 1]
• [goal 2]

Projects shipped

Project	My role	Impact
[name]	[what I owned]	[result / metric]

Collaboration & mentorship

• [helped X with Y / reviewed N PRs / onboarded @name]
• [pairing, teaching, docs written for others]

Invisible work

The work nobody saw that mattered:

• [incidents quietly prevented / unglamorous fixes / glue work]
• [process improvements / tooling that saved time]

What I learned

• [skill / domain / technology + where applied]

Outside work (optional)

• [talks / writing / open source / community]

Feedback received

From	Said	What I did with it
@name	[feedback]	[action taken]

Highlights for review season

Pull from above when the review form asks – the raw material is already here.