# A Day of Sensemaking After Starting a New Job

DevFeed: [A Day of Sensemaking After Starting a New Job](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/tbm-439-day-at-the-gig-40068.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-439-day-at-the-gig>)

Author: John Cutler

Published: 2026-09-11T02:16:25Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The Beautiful Mess](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-beautiful-mess.md>)

Topics: [Notion](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/notion.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context.md>), [Tool](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tool.md>)

Tags: [context](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context.md>), [notion](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/notion.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflows.md>)

## AI overview

The author describes a day spent understanding a new product, its workflows, history, people, artifacts, and accumulated context. They use a subway-map metaphor and Notion tables to organize journeys, handoffs, data sources, and other materials, while questioning which information remains valid.

## Source excerpt

I recently started a new job, which means I'm spending a lot of my time trying to figure out how everything works: the product, the workflows, the history, the people, the artifacts, and all the context that everyone else has accumulated over time.