(1-minute read)In the interest of complete honesty, this email is infused with a slight hangover from last nights' gin π¬.A friend of mine asked me a few days ago "How are you staying normal with not going out of the house almost at all?", and was an...
(1-minute read)READ THIS EMAIL - MUH FEELINGS ARE AT STAKE! π¬Yesterday, it seems 90% of my readers received their email in the spam folder for some reason, and we can't figure out why.Best guess is that my apology was in all grey text, not black, and...
...or your portfolio / social / LinkedIn. Whatever you have where I can check out your work, what you do and who are.Before I start - I want to apologise - yesterday's email had a copy/paste error in the last paragraph. I use Grammarly for...
Here's a one-minute hack to keep your clients happy and make them work with you again, and for longer. I'm lucky I had a friend to tell me this lesson at a critical moment when I was losing my shit not realising I was the problem.I've mentioned this...
(blowing off steam email)"All you care about is money.""Why would anyone pay you for THAT!?""How can you be that stupid and quit your job?""You will remember this when you fail - let me know when you do"."You are just selfish!"Sound familiar?I'm fair...
(this one is important - 2 minute read)"What is your rate?"This is a question that a lot of people want to ask established freelancers, especially people who are starting out. I know I wanted to ask it so badly, thinking that I could then raise my ra...
(2-minute read)The term work-life balance is so overused it's absurd. There's no job ad without the term "work-life balance" in it, and "flexible working". But I feel that people writing those ads are either copy/pasting or have no idea what they are...
If I could turn back time.If I could find a way.If I could tell my past self one thingToday we "gained" an hour. Got me thinking - how much time would I save, or better, how much time I wouldn't waste if I listened to smarter and more experienced peo...
Let's say it's an ideal working day (no distractions or life complications), and you have five tasks to complete; One big task of 4h of work, and four smaller tasks of 1h of work.Which one do you take on first? The big one, or smaller ones? Why?(repl...
Whenever I lose motivation for work; I just have to think back to five minutes of one insignificant day with one unimportant person. Immediately I get that "fuck you" contempt. Five minutes of conversation that got me to quit my first "real" job in I...