Category: Links of Interest
Some Indie Fiction I’m excited about
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The sequel to Akairya is getting closer to completion. I’ve read the first one and it was good. One part was a bit to “adult” for my 7-year-old but it wasn’t aimed at readers that young anyway. I just tweak it a bit for her and we both love it. I’ll be buying a copy…
On Ergonomic Keyboards
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Nice review of the Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard. I still prefer my Kinesis Freestyle Solo and I have the second version as well. I’m back on the original right now till I get appeared USB hub for my iPad since V2 had a USB hub in it doesn’t get enough power from the iPad directly.…
Failure that looks like Success
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This was a great post and it comes at an interesting time. See I’ve got this video recorded uploaded and schedule for Wednesday that talks more about my failure/struggles. It’s scary to have it ready since I’m using it as a push to talk with my wife about it. The video claims I have, but…
Facebook isn’t friendship
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Losing friends because you’re not on Facebook is only a valid concern to the extent that your ‘friends on Facebook’ are not really friends at all. From the great James Shelley. I do have a Facebook profile but the only thing I use it for is to interact with two groups. One is a book…
How Many Hours Does a Freelancer Bill In A Day?
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I recently had someone reach out to find out what my daily hours looked like. Here were the questions specifically. How many billable hours do you aim for in a day? How many hours of exercise per day? How do you handle disruptions to your schedule? (e.g. do you plan for some leeway in your…
Producing a winning proposal
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The subject of my latest piece at Liquid Web is why you might not be able to talk to the buyer of a project. Do you know the difference between tactics and strategy? Do you know which one the buyer will want to talk about with a good consultant? A buyer that takes you seriously…
Do I need to take a class to get started freelancing?
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This is based off an answer I gave on Quora. Figure out what you’re going to do. what are you good at now? what will people pay for? what is the target market you’re looking at? Where will you offer your services? – is Upwork worth it? – what about testing your ideas on Fivver…
Getting Past the Gatekeeper So You Can Have a Winning Proposal
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Over on the Liquid Web blog I wrote about some tactics you can use to woo the buyer on a project. In my last post I talked about the importance of talking to the buyer for your project. I introduced the idea of the gatekeeper there. To recap, the gatekeeper is anyone that doesn’t have…
Chris Lema on serving your inbox
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Is your inbox your boss? While I may check email at some point any day of the week the only day I put effort in to clearing up what’s in it is Friday. See Friday I’m between calls so there isn’t really much I can do once I start on the call and meeting bandwagon.…
Cal Newport on Open Offices
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Newport cites a new study on open office plans, interruption and face-to-face interactions. The short version is that open offices promote less face-to-face interaction, more IM/Slack and more email. So we have more digital distraction and less of the thing that the office was supposed to promote. This quote sums up my feelings on the…
