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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: Introductions

Doing web work for yourself, clients, *and* a local web agency requires some fancy footwork at times. I'm not sure I've read too many blogs about going from flying solo to sitting at a desk (not like a corporate stooge, thankfully), so perhaps this will help some people

Edison.

What we do to stay busy may not be where we should spend our time. Do you work because you want to improve the area around you, or to meet the false expectations you established? Don’t deify Edison’s principle; I urge you to pause before you ruin your reputation with empty promises.

Sherlock.

What pieces of what you'd like to do can you be doing today? If there aren't any, you might need to re-configure your expectations of the future. Can you cut out something silly to get 10x more of something important? I'm wildly fascinated with the way Sherlock is portrayed *between* solving cases; let's take a look.