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"Are You in the Ballpark?" asks Mark McGuinness in his recent video, providing an excellent look at self-evaluation and coping with rejection, not just for creators but for independent professionals in general.
"If you are in the ballpark as a creative, it means your work is good enough to be worthy of serious consideration. But getting there doesn't guarantee you're going to win the game," says Mark, using the baseball analogy.
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"Do to-do lists help you plan your day? Or do they increase your stress as they do for me?" Tom Baranek asks in the introduction to his article How I learned to plan better.
In the text, Tom describes his personal experience and the path to creating the Nautilus — an innovative extension to Roam Research for better time management, which we mentioned in our news recently.
As Tom writes, this concept may be of interest to you even if you don't use Roam yourself. It's a more general concept than just a platform-specific solution.
"I’ve tried millions of apps, but their tasks always look one like the other — one task, one line. To-do lists are just unintuitive and useless for getting the bigger picture."
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The Freelance Magic article provides good and lesser-known strategies for finding clients, especially for freelancers who want to operate in the international market. Methods such as networking in industry-specific Slack channels aim to open new avenues for freelancers to secure meaningful and lucrative projects by leveraging digital tools and platforms.
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Tiago Forte, a recognized expert on personal productivity and author of Building a Second Brain, has published a review of Google NotebookLM, which is a new, potentially revolutionary software that allows you to write using AI analysis of the resources you upload. This could be a useful tool for anyone who writes, whether it be articles or books. Tiago, in this video review, demonstrates relevant use cases and provides interesting insights into how such technology can work.
"In this video, I'll show you what NotebookLM is, how it works, and how you can get started using what I believe is the best software ever created for leveraging AI in creative work."
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The 2023 edition of British IPSE Self-Employed Landscape Report reveals that professionals aged 50-59 represent the largest and fastest-growing age group among UK freelancers, with almost 1.2 million people, marking a seven percent increase from the previous year.
Research indicates that older professionals are increasingly turning to freelancing as their best option. This shift is supported by a confidence in their self-starting capabilities, increasing longevity of self-employed businesses and readiness for freelance work, highlighting a significant transformation in the sector's skill profile and pointing towards a broader reevaluation of employment and self-employment dynamics among experienced professionals.
You can read more findings from the report here.
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Here’s the newest English interview on freelance business with Robert Vlach hosted by Georgi Nenov and The Superhuman Podcast during Robert’s December 2023 book tour in Sofia, organized by Locus Publishing.
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Rory Sutherland, in this albeit older but still very relevant and excellent TED Talk, discusses the importance of psychology in life, marketing, and business. Sutherland, who is, among other things, the author of the successful book Alchemy, talks about the powerful role of perception and framing in influencing human satisfaction and decision-making.
"The power to rebrand things—to understand that our experiences, costs, things don't actually much depend on what they really are, but on how we view them—I genuinely think can't be overstated."
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If you work as a freelance translator, Jeremy Klemin's article in The Atlantic might catch your interest. It explores AI's role in book translation and its impact on professionals, highlighting a rising trend among some European publishers towards post-editing (PE)—where humans refine machine-generated translations. While this approach speeds up the process and cuts costs, Klemin notes it may also lead to less creativity and more uniform outputs.
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California sets the tone with the Freelance Worker Protection Act. Senator Scott Wiener introduced Senate Bill 988 to protect the growing number of freelancers in California, offering key protections. According to The Freelance Informer, the key points are:
Although the law has not yet been enacted, its proposed provisions offer significant benefits and, if successful, may inspire legislators in other parts of the world, with implications for the global freelance market.
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In this new article, which is the third part of a series on Boss Mindset, Sarah Duran discusses the contrast between traditional employment and the independence of freelancers; she emphasizes the importance of self-driven professional development for freelancers, encouraging us to see our skills as an asset we control.
"Clients are not looking for an employee that they have to tell what to do, train, and manage along the way. Clients are looking for top-tier experts who understand precisely what they need and then independently execute."
Sarah highlights how we as freelancers must manage our brand, market our skills, and actively seek growth opportunities. The entrepreneurial approach not only demands continuous learning and adaptation from us but also involves refining our focus on what we do best over time. By evolving client relationships, saying no to unfit projects, and delegating or outsourcing when necessary, we can enhance our value proposition, solve more significant problems for clients, and achieve personal and financial growth.
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