One of the most important lessons I got from Profit First by Michael Michalowicz is that most human beings are really bad at following a plan to get a reward at the end. Think: retirement, profits, …
The price of progress
For all the long nights I've put into client work, professional development, and sitting at a computer, there's only one thing that's come close to taking me down, despite all my enthusiasm for …
Why do we resist balance?
One of the most enriching things about being a B2B writer is that I spend a lot of my phone time interviewing fascinating, accomplished people in leadership roles. Yesterday, I got to ask an …
Normalize running a business
The biggest hurdle I had to get over in building a successful freelance business was realizing that running a freelance writing business was normal. It might not have been normal to me, coming from …
Drawn to that ugly swagger
As a writer, interacting with other people has always come with a certain amount of hand-wringing. Will they like me? Will I make them laugh? Will they laugh too much, or at me? I think it often ended …
We choose ourselves
Very little would get done if the movers and shakers of today had waited for someone to promote them. Tara Sophia Moor called this "tiara syndrome" in her book Playing Big, where most people just do a …