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A Simple AI Workflow for People Who Hate Setup
No automations, no 40-tool stack. Just a simple AI workflow you can fold into a normal workday, with one browser tab and zero setup. Here's what mine looks like.
Fresh reads
Latest posts
What a 13-Year-Old Migrant Knows About Risk That You Don't
Ousman Umar walked from Ghana to Spain at thirteen. Reading his story changed how I think about the word 'risk' and what most of us actually mean when we use it.
Using AI to Learn a New Skill Faster (For Real)
Using AI to learn new skills can genuinely speed you up, or quietly fool you into thinking you've learned something. Here's how to get the first without the second.
What Pollan's Psychedelic Research Means for the Stuck
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.
Why People Join Cult Communities (Including Productivity Ones)
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.
7 Ways Your Brain Sabotages You (And What to Do)
Dean Burnett calls them brain bugs. They show up at work disguised as personality flaws. A short list, plus the fix for each.
How to Find Freelance Clients Without Job Boards
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.
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Seven shelves into the catalog. Pick the one closest to what you're working through.
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Freelancing & Career
The machinery of running a one-person business. And surviving inside someone else's.
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Productivity & Focus
What survives a real week. And what was always a marketing campaign in disguise.
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Books Worth Your Time
Honest reviews. Not summaries. Not five-star inflation. Just what the book actually argued.
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Mental Models & Self-Work
Frameworks that survive contact with reality. And the limits they don't advertise.
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Tools for Solo Operators
Reviews from someone who runs a one-person business and gets nothing for the endorsement.
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Money for Irregular Income
Financial advice for people whose paycheck doesn't show up on the 1st.
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Content & Creativity
Writing, making, publishing. The unglamorous parts and the strategic ones.
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Health & Wellness
Sleep, stress, energy, burnout. The body running the business everyone else manages with a team.
Hub · Freelancing
Freelancing & Career
Why Bureaucracy Is Eating Your Freelance Business
Vendor portals, 40-page NDAs, procurement gauntlets, three-tier invoice systems. None of it makes anyone safer. It just makes you cheaper. A rant.
Hub · Productivity
Productivity & Focus
The 2-Minute Awareness Practice I Actually Stick With
A two-minute reset for solo workers, stripped of mysticism. Just enough to unhook from the screen and come back sharper.
Hub · Books
Books Worth Your Time
Money Habits Beat Money Math
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
Mental Models & Self-Work
The Pleasure-Happiness Confusion That's Wrecking You
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.
