I've been relearning process. I've had to. I've been going through a lot of psychological and neurological healing and integrating fragments of my identity into a healthier whole. A good thing, objectively, but it comes with the problem that I'm used to doing work in spite of my feelings, rather than because of them.

This is how you know if your idea will work: test it for a few years. And since you can’t do that for every thought, try this instead. It’s a rigorous, safe, and much shorter process.

Self-employment, it turns out, means spending a lot of time listening to people who are in the business of making money. Self-employment...

The Venn Diagram with good writers in one circle and skilled marketers in the other doesn't overlap much. I realized, though, before I...