It was 4:14 PM on a Tuesday in 2018, and I was sitting in a cramped breakroom at a logistics firm in Des Moines, staring at a lukewarm cup of vending machine coffee. I had a spreadsheet open on my lap and a text from my sister on my phone asking why I hadn’t RSVP’d …
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I’m pretty sure I accidentally gave OpenAI my company’s entire Q3 marketing strategy back in July. It was a Tuesday, around 11:15 PM, and I was exhausted. I had this massive, messy spreadsheet of internal KPIs and I just wanted a quick summary to send to my boss so I could go to sleep. I …
Why I Fired the Client Who Paid 60% of My Bills (And Lived)
On October 14th, 2021, I sat in my car in a grocery store parking lot and cried for twenty minutes because a guy named Steve sent me a Slack message asking for a ‘quick’ update on a spreadsheet. Steve was my biggest client. His company, a mid-sized logistics firm in Chicago, was paying me $8,400 …
Why your personality determines if you’ll actually use Notion or Obsidian
I spent forty-five dollars on a Notion template back in March of 2021. It was designed by some productivity guru on Twitter whose name I can’t even remember now, but the screenshots looked like a minimalist dream. It had progress bars for my fitness goals, a relational database for my reading list, and custom icons …
Stop Waking Up at 5 AM: Why Your Morning Routine is Actually Ruining Your Life
I woke up at 5:00 AM every single day for a month because some guy on YouTube with perfect teeth told me it would make me a millionaire. It didn’t make me a millionaire. It just made me a person who was incredibly angry at my toaster by 7:15 AM. We’ve been fed this narrative …
Why ‘None’ is the Most Powerful Choice You Aren’t Making Right Now
I once spent three weeks of my life setting up a Jira board for a team of exactly two people. It was 2019, I was working at this mid-sized logistics firm in Chicago, and I was convinced that if we just had the right ‘infrastructure,’ our little side project would take off. I spent $450 …
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