I am too easily distracted at my home office. Sometimes, I go to a local soccer bar called A.J. Hudsons, buy a girl drink to pay rent for the table, and get to work. When the other patrons start singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone”, it’s time to go home and enter the draft on the… [Read More]
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Category: Advice for Freelancers
Doubt, Overconfidence, Fear, Greed
I’m writing a piece for a client on the psychology of day trading, and I’m thinking about a recent conversation I had with a fellow freelancer about bad projects we had worked on. We both noted that we knew we were taking on projects that would turn into disasters, and yet we signed on anyway…. [Read More]
Advice for Freelancers: Jerry Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret
During the 2012 Blogathon, I started keeping track of my work using a little tip I picked up from Jerry Seinfeld via Lifehacker. Here’s what he recommends for getting into a new habit: get a calendar and then cross off the squares for each day that you do whatever it is you want to do…. [Read More]
Chrissie Hynde’s Advice to Chick Rockers
Why did I just find out about this? I’m a huge Pretenders fan; it meant the world to me when I first heard “Top Your Sobbing”. The DJ said that Chrissie Hynde was from nearby Akron and had up and run off to London and made this record. She proved that so much was possible!… [Read More]
If I Started Blogging Today, I Would . . .
Although the Blogathon is over, I realized that I missed one of the post challenges: to write about what I would do differently if I started blogging today. But here’s the thing: I am a really reluctant blogger to begin with. Way back in 2006, I did a presentation on why I loved blogs but… [Read More]
