Frictionless Freelancing

it's a list of suggestions for changing your systems, routines

Assumed professionalism.

The better choice, and the choice with the least amount of friction, is to keep everything on one big list.

then I pick the lowest priority items and shift them to the next day

Most of us are lucky if we can get only some of the things done. And it’s frustrating because we know we are capable of so much more.

I also don’t require a new contract for each project. My contracts are written, in a sense, to be a meta-contract that oversees the entire relationship through multiple projects. Once my client has signed a contract with me, they’ll never have to do so again.

Rookies think it’s because they didn’t work hard enough, but in reality it’s because they didn’t plan hard enough.

All that busyness and rushing and flailing about is actually working against you.

Whatever it is, you need to capture it or else that beautiful moment will vanish.