Freelancing

People think cheating happens because someone’s unsatisfied. Or bored. Or drunk. Or chasing some midlife-thrill-seeking fantasy they saw in a romcom. But most of the time? It’s none of that. The #1 reason people cheat is much more boring—and more dangerous. It’s familiarity. Here’s how it usually goes: Two people sit near each other at […]

Wake up once at 4:27 am with a crying baby and no coffee beans in the cupboard?  Shame on you.  Wake up twice with no coffee beans?  Shame on me.  Last week I swore an oath to my wife that this house would never go uncaffeinated again. And so I demanded pounds upon pounds of

Let this be a warning to anyone reading their inbox too early in the morning. Last night, I got what may be the most seductive cold pitch I’ve seen all year. It wasn’t a bullet list.It wasn’t AI-generated fluff.It was… a poem. An actual poem. Here’s what it said: “Dear sir, your YouTube channel,80/20 MarketingIs

Last night I was drifting off to sleep, just about to hit that REM cycle when suddenly… Out of nowhere… Jack and Jill,Sitting in a tree,K-I-S-S-I-N-G… I jolted awake like a squirrel on espresso. I haven’t heard that rhyme in 20+ years. So why was my brain unearthing it now? Why not something useful? Like

“Needs fewer fingers,” I told my client, squinting at the new product image. He blinked. “What do you mean?” I circled the hand on the screen. Six fingers. Maybe seven. A grotesque mockup of a phone grasped by what looked like a human-but-not-human creature. Ah yes. Another MidJourney masterpiece. We were on a Zoom call,