Hang out with the non-cliche types. The oddballs. The obsessive. The ones who attach balloons to a gardening chair to see what it’s like to fly. — Time speeds up as you get older. Ask any adult and they’ll tell you. As a child, life goes painfully slow. You’re dying to grow up as fast as you can so you can watch horror movies and the odd nude scene. By the time you become a teenager you…

Everything you can escape grows in value — A few months ago, I got into a new “full-time” position as a writer. It had all the perks — 401k, health plan, even unlimited paid time off. I was happy, but my first thought (weirdly enough) was, “OK, what’s my escape plan?” Good things happening are good, obviously. But…

Not knowing your startup sins is the biggest startup sin. — Nobody likes Crocs. They look utterly horrendous. They're like sweatpants for stinky feet. They have holes so big that a roach can climb in. Now, just like you and I feel about those sweaty Crocs, investors feel when startup founders pitch them ideas that commit startup sins. They cringe. As…

Stick to this rule and you’ll be creating content daily or at least every three days — Publishing stories often isn’t easy. Simply, being about to pump out content consistently is hard. For example, when I first started trying to blog, it took me a week to research and then a week to publish something. With all of that hard work, still no views. I felt despondent. …

I doubled my Twitter interactions in less than 30 days, and you can do it too. — You can write articles and create content for years without any success. But this doesn’t mean you are not good at it. You just need to learn to share your work. How do you expect people to find your content if you keep it to yourself? Not promoting content is…

Sorry to burst the bubble but it aint pretty — Writing online is both exhilerating and soul destroying. I’m telling you that now so you know the realities. Most people think the hard bit is starting, as if pressing publish of your first article is the real obstacle. That’s the easy part. The trouble with writing online is that some…

This is the top, top, top skillset for any consultant on the side. — One thing is true for all consultants on the side, especially when you are running a 1-Man consulting practice. You have no time. Therefore, you have no time to waste. If we have only 4 hours per day to work on our consulting side-hustle, we want to make sure that…

Follow these steps before you quit your 9–5 job — “In the future, everyone will be working for themselves”. — Naval Ravikant How many of you dream of quitting your job and working for yourself? I assume that if you’ve clicked this article, you share this dream. But quitting your job and working for yourself can often feel like a…

They message me and request to hire me and buy my courses. I used to work with this girl who built a side hustle empire on Instagram. She kept her 9–5 for security, but from 6–10 and every weekend, she sold beauty products on Instagram with her mama. When Covid…