Category: Diary of a Web Worker
The good, the bad, and the slightly delusional
Diary of a web worker: Business is not for sissies
If you want to find out exactly what’s wrong with your business, hire employees. If you want to find out what your biggest weaknesses are, hire employees. If you want to take a month-long trip to Maui in the next six months without skipping a beat in your business…I don’t know what to tell you. Continue Reading »
Diary of a web worker: On being a solopreneur
Diary of a Web Worker is a new series where I spill my guts about the realities of running a successful small business. This month, we’re all about solopreneurship. In other words, starting and running a business completely on your own. The ups, the downs, practical strategy, all of it. Hang on to your skivvies! Continue Reading »
I am a love machine
Really, I am. I thrive on love in all forms. Online love. Offline love. Love for my work, love for other people’s work. Love is my favorite. I think we’re all little walking love machines. It would be cool if we had glowy hearts on our chests that we could push to disseminate and receive Continue Reading »
She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes
Got that stuck in your head now? Good. Me too. I feel like this is one of those awkward moments where I was supposed to call but didn’t, and then I run into you in the grocery store and say “So…” while shuffling my feet. So… I’m being quiet right now. That’s the gist of Continue Reading »
The year of the breakdowns
I think I’m going to call this the year of the breakdowns. I feel like this has been a recurring theme in my life and in my writing lately — breaking down. And it’s embarrassing, really. But I have to write about it. Because I can’t write “Top 10 Ways to Fix Your Blog Posts” Continue Reading »
Crawling out of the flaming river of death
Note: Today’s post is a bit out of the ordinary for me, but it’s what came out of a terrible, head-pounding day. We’ll get back to our regularly scheduled strategy-talk on Thursday. Today was awful. I can actually say it was the worst day in the history of my entrepreneurial career. One of those days Continue Reading »
