solopreneurship (or, me as-a-service)

“Tell me what you need otherwise I can’t help you.” I think that’s an important piece of advice for networking. If you’re asking for 30 minutes of someone’s time, tell them exactly what you want to ask them about or what you’re looking for and whether that is stuff you can’t get from 30 minutes of Googling. Aimless “brain picking” conversations... See more

you need to refine your personal brand and know exactly what you symbolize — that is, which slice of the algorithmic network of consumer identities you represent

How can you find your personal moat?

Ask others: What’s something that’s easy for me to do but hard for others? What's a skill or asset I have that’s very difficult for people to reverse engineer?

Expertise does involve supplying answers, eventually, but mainly expertise is about asking the right questions, first, and then offering a few answers after the truth surfaces.

Expertise is primarily about curiosity, and curiosity requires many, many questions. And each question you ask narrows the field of enquiry until the answer just lands on... See more

Plenty good enough is all that matters, though. Clients don’t even recognize great work, so who are we fooling? They recognize bad work, but not good work. Good work is just good enough. If you wrap good enough work in great customer service and project management, you’ll get away with a whole lot.