Fresh reads
Most breathing advice is wellness branding. James Nestor's research isn't. Here's the one thing from Breath that actually shifted how I focus during work.
The chicken-and-egg of needing work to get work is fake. Here's how to build a freelance portfolio with no experience, using projects you make for yourself.
AI is mediocre at writing your draft and genuinely great at editing it. Here are the specific editing jobs AI tools for editing writing actually do well.
A dying neurosurgeon wrote a book about how he spent the last year of his life. I read it twice and rewrote my calendar both times.
The right freelance discovery call questions do two jobs: they scope the work and they screen out the clients who'll wreck your month. Here's the short list to ask.
I built a whole career on Zoom panels and sales calls while my hands shook under the desk. Here's the social-anxiety playbook nobody hands you when you go self-employed.
Browse the shelves
Seven shelves into the catalog. Pick the one closest to what you're working through.
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The machinery of running a one-person business. And surviving inside someone else's.
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What survives a real week. And what was always a marketing campaign in disguise.
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Honest reviews. Not summaries. Not five-star inflation. Just what the book actually argued.
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Frameworks that survive contact with reality. And the limits they don't advertise.
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Reviews from someone who runs a one-person business and gets nothing for the endorsement.
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Financial advice for people whose paycheck doesn't show up on the 1st.
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Writing, making, publishing. The unglamorous parts and the strategic ones.
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Sleep, stress, energy, burnout. The body running the business everyone else manages with a team.
Hub · Freelancing
James Carse drew a line between two kinds of games people play. Most freelancers pick the wrong one. And don't realize it until they've spent a decade losing.
Hub · Productivity
Matthew Walker's research turned my deadline math upside down. The eight-hour rule isn't a wellness suggestion. It's a hard limit on the work you can do.
Hub · Books
Morgan Housel's argument is that personal finance is mostly behavior, not math. Here are the eight Housel lessons that actually matter for freelancers.
Hub · Thinking
Ousman Umar walked from Ghana to Spain at thirteen. Reading his story changed how I think about the word 'risk' and what most of us actually mean when we use it.
