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How to Get Clients to Pay on Time (I Learned Late)
I let a client owe me for three months because chasing felt rude. Here's what that taught me about how to get clients to pay on time, the unglamorous way.
Fresh reads
An honest read on Michael Pollan's research, for people creatively stuck, not for people looking for a how-to. What the science suggests, and what it doesn't.
Eric Hoffer wrote the textbook on mass movements in 1951. Reading it today, half of online creator culture is just doing the same thing with better lighting.
Dean Burnett calls them brain bugs. They show up at work disguised as personality flaws. A short list, plus the fix for each.
Job boards are a race to the bottom with strangers. Here's how to find freelance clients without them, using the channels that bring better work at better rates.
The real AI data privacy risk isn't a dramatic hack. It's the client NDA you pasted into a free chatbot last Tuesday. Here's what to check before you trust a tool.
Vendor portals, 40-page NDAs, procurement gauntlets, three-tier invoice systems. None of it makes anyone safer. It just makes you cheaper. A rant.
Browse the shelves
Seven shelves into the catalog. Pick the one closest to what you're working through.
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The machinery of running a one-person business. And surviving inside someone else's.
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What survives a real week. And what was always a marketing campaign in disguise.
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Honest reviews. Not summaries. Not five-star inflation. Just what the book actually argued.
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Frameworks that survive contact with reality. And the limits they don't advertise.
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Reviews from someone who runs a one-person business and gets nothing for the endorsement.
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Financial advice for people whose paycheck doesn't show up on the 1st.
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Writing, making, publishing. The unglamorous parts and the strategic ones.
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Sleep, stress, energy, burnout. The body running the business everyone else manages with a team.
Hub · Freelancing
The first week sets the tone for the whole project. Here's a freelance client onboarding process that prevents the misunderstandings that wreck jobs later.
Hub · Productivity
A two-minute reset for solo workers, stripped of mysticism. Just enough to unhook from the screen and come back sharper.
Hub · Books
Morgan Housel's argument is that personal finance is mostly behavior, not math. Here are the eight Housel lessons that actually matter for freelancers.
Hub · Thinking
Robert Lustig argues pleasure and happiness run on different brain chemistry. If he's right, the creator economy is optimized for one and starving you of the other.