Cinderella Rules

First, the bad news: You are not Cinderella.

Further bad news: Neither am I.

The good news is that Cinderella lives in a perfect ever-after world, since the shoe did actually fit, and all that nonsense. This is the ever-after that no one included in the story. This is the ever-after that includes being totally qualified, but age-challenged. This is the ever-after that includes absolute political correctness, so that we're not "too old", we're just too darned focused on past experience.

Now, if we had documentation of that past experience, it might pull some weight with today's awesomely fair, iPhone-enabled, management generation. Our downfall is that we didn't document any of our experience with raw data. So now we have nothing but reputation, which counts for nothing in a world dominated by Excel spreadsheets. After all, reputation is now a matter of context.

Anyone can fake an Excel spreadsheet. Oh no...so documentation is also meaningless? Where do we go from there?