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Zuzana Bilkova
manufacturer of wool duvets and bedding in a traditional workshop — Besky is a traditional workshop in Beskid Mountains manufacturing wool duvets and bedding of the highest quality, handmade from 100% natural materials and wool supplied by local farmers. Founded in 1992, it has served 40,000 well-rested customers.
Marian Friedl
musician, music producer, composer and publicist — Award-winning musician and multi-instrumentalist, active in several genres including free jazz, contemporary avant-garde, world and folk music, as well as symphonic and other projects. Recorded over 20 albums with outstanding musicians and producers.
Branislav Viest
Linux server administrator — Senior Linux admin with 15+ years of experience and a fully remote working setup. Providing outsourced management and administration of Linux servers and Linux OS: installation and configuration, monitoring, security, consulting, infrastructure, etc.
Mark McGuinness
coach for creative professionals — Coaching talented, inspiring and ambitious creative professionals since 1996. Author of four books for creatives and contributor to 99U’s international best sellers. Host of The 21st Century Creative podcast.
Martin Kavka
newsletter consultant and evangelist, specialized in content newsletters and subscription platforms — Content newsletters and their development in terms of content creation, marketing and growing a base of loyal subscribers on proven subscription platforms that can also be used for monetizing the newsletter content.
Pavel Trusina
certified English-Czech translator and interpreter — Interpreting of official, informal and business meetings, online and in-person events, court proceedings, etc. English-Czech and Czech-English translations of general, official and professional texts and documents. Over 40 years of experience.
Vaclav Ras
data analytics expert — Actionable insights and data-driven solutions leading to substantial improvements in business operations. Data analysis, reporting and visualization, audits and data transformation, measurements implementation. Clients include Skoda Auto and CGI.
Highlights
News & Updates
October 29WEEKLY DIGEST #44 OF 2026
- How To “Create” A Personal Brand As A Freelancer – Lizzie Davey argues every freelancer already has a personal brand—in their email replies and in what clients say about them. No influencer theater required, just shaping it on purpose. Drawing on her path from Upwork bids to inbound referrals, she weighs the trade-offs and shares three rules for what to keep private, starting with “share the lesson, not the wound,” plus a hub-and-spokes model for growing beyond one-to-one work.
- I'm Not Doing 996 – Elena Verna pushes back on “996”—9am to 9pm, six days a week—as a badge of honor in AI startups. Hard work isn’t constant work, she argues, and productivity gains only raise expectations. She writes about company culture, but her lessons fit freelancers just as well, since nobody will protect your time but you. Elena suggests naming your boundaries out loud, judging output over hours, and trying a five-year regret test when work and life collide.
- Let Your Clients Make Terrible Decisions – When a good client insists on a decision you know is wrong, Sara Gibson argues that your job is to advise, document, and then let them make it. She shares two email templates—a “paper trail” note that flags the risk once without sounding like “I told you so,” and a “pivot proposal” that turns the eventual fix into a new paid sprint. Her rule of thumb is simple; you can’t care more about their business than they do.
- Rethinking Your Work After Thirty Years – On the Wisepreneurs Podcast, Nigel Rawlins talks with cognitive scientist Lia DiBello, who argues that people don’t learn anything new—they reshuffle what they already know. Her “strategic rehearsals” compress years of business into a day, so people can fail, iterate, and rebuild their thinking. She also explains why lasting success means balancing finance, operations, and supply and demand, and why experience pays off on the second try.
- The Growth-by-Addition Trap & The Way Forward to a Simpler, More Profitable Business – Are you trying to grow your freelance business by adding new offers, channels, and tactics? Austin L. Church calls it the growth-by-addition trap—each move makes sense on its own, but together they leave an overgrown business full of half-finished projects and obsolete offers. Hidden inside, he argues, is a simpler, more profitable one, and the way to find it isn’t another addition but deliberate subtraction.