I just finished reading Derek Sivers’ book, Your Music And People. Whilst it is written primarily for people in the music industry, many of the principles are applicable elsewhere. As you can imagine, there are a lot of musicians struggling to make a living from their art. He gives an alternate view of focusing on […]
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Think in terms of budgets not estimates
Humans are notoriously bad at estimating how long it will take to complete a task. Psychologists call it a planning fallacy and this was first discussed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky way back in 1977. All these years later and regardless of us knowing of the problem, it still exists much the same as […]
You don’t have to work more to earn more
A common mindset among people who earn a salary or wage is that the only way to earn more is to find a job that pays more or to somehow work more hours. Perhaps with paid overtime or similar. The same goes for self employed people who charge by the hour. Increase the hourly rate […]