A freelancer's
journal.
Short notes on independent work.
Once or twice a month, when I have something to say.
Every end of month, the same ritual. Digging through notes, emails, sticky notes.
Most content about freelancing talks about getting started. What happens after ten years rarely gets discussed.
Every freelance business goes through slow periods. That's a certainty, not a possibility. What separates freelancers who get through them with minimal damage from those who panic isn't the absence of slow periods
Everyone talks about time management. Far fewer talk about attention management.
Is AI going to kill freelancing? My answer after living with these tools daily: no. AI replaces standardised production work. But what good clients actually buy is judgement. And that, AI doesn't do.
We judge a tool by its features. I prefer to judge it by what it doesn't ask of me.