These GFH articles have been down in the depths as of late, discussing the hard realities of having a business and searching for work. I’d be remiss to suggest that it really is turtles all the way down. Time to bring this trend of topics back toward the surface.
Category: Articles
Safety Noose
Nothing feels “right” until I write. Whenever I am trying to figure things out, typing or doodling is always part of the solution. I also really enjoy listening to and learning from other people. Crazy as this may sound, I have a very short list of folks that I pay attention to online. I sincerely hope a few of them read this.
Gun For Hire: Unsustainable
This will not be the last post in my Gun For Hire series, but I do hope that it marks the start of a new chapter. It’s time to step up and deal with the elephant in the room: sustainability.
Infidel
“I feel like I lost my job.” 27 years old and this was the second time I had ever said those words. The first time was three years earlier, when I launched out to start my freelance web business. Always an adventure.
HTML5 Reset on The Big Web Show
This is exciting – I’ve been working with Tim Murtaugh to update the HTML5 Reset WordPress Theme. His work was some of the first HTML5 code I read/wrote back before a lot of the frameworks became popular. I’ve been pleased to contribute back to this project, and Tim talked about this and other things he’s working on in the latest episode of The Big Web Show. Go listen and check out his work!
Gun For Hire: Nomad
I recently wrote a tongue-and-cheek post about losing internet for several days. It has a few tips for keeping things in motion while you wait for the interwebs to re-animate, but it doesn’t deal with the mindset of having to “run and gun” on public wifi. This post will.
Freelancer On The Run
I was teasing a good friend about losing his internet connection the other night…then I came home to a dead line at my house. Cruel irony. Though this issue drove me to public wifi for several hours, I wanted to share a few ABC’s for the digital nomad with a non-functional home office.
Gun For Hire: Replicant
Like any crazed freelancer, I receive multiple emails a day from clients who all need something right at the same time. I’m not sure if this is a good sign or not, but it’s how things have been going for the past three years and change. How do you tell people they are important…but there are others in the crowd?
Gun For Hire: Support
Flying solo is a blessing and a curse. There seems to be a lot of debate in the freelance community about what it means to “make it work.” What do you consider success, how do you measure growth, and when do you know to stop pulling the trigger and call for reinforcements?
Doing That “One Thing”
This may be one of my new favorite articles on writing. Great thoughts on the industry, the craft, and the hustle it takes to keep writing great stuff.