Essays

Practical career thinking for people who work on their own.

Focus, follow-through, remote work and career change — written for freelancers and remote professionals who have to supply their own structure, and who are tired of advice that assumes a manager will hand them one.

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What this publication covers

Three areas, one essay at a time

Focus

Starting your own work

Why a task you actually care about is harder to begin than a task somebody assigned you — and what genuinely changes that.

Remote work

Structure you supply yourself

What happens to a working day when nobody else defines its edges, and how to rebuild them without ceremony or a new app.

Career change

Positioning without overclaiming