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Growth as Gospel: Why We're All Addicted to "More" better world entrepreneur freelance money self care solopreneur stategy Jun 18, 2025

Is a recession coming?

Google that question and you'll drown in articles about interest rates, unemployment numbers, and consumer confidence. But they're all really asking the same thing: Is the econ...

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How to Praise Idleness best life better world self care Jun 24, 2024

For the last month or so, I’ve found productivity incredibly difficult.  

This dynamic has totally thrown me off, and I’ve had a hard time bouncing back to my usual productive self.

This is not comm...

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How to Overcome Fear best life better world strategy Mar 06, 2024

When was the last time you were afraid?

Fear is a slippery thing. In its most straightforward form, fear manifests as outright terror—panic at the possibility of a perceived outcome. In more subtle f...

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The Antidote to Languishing Isn’t Focus, It’s Idleness best life better world time Jun 22, 2021

For the last month or so I’ve found it incredibly difficult to be productive.

This is not common for me — I love my job, I love my work, and I love “getting things done.”

It turns out, I’m not

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Time in Crisis: Scrambling and Standing Still best life better world time Sep 03, 2020

The particular crisis that we find ourselves in now has shifted time in a way that makes it feel more amorphous - the decade that was March, the moment of April, the year of May. The future feels so u...

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Calling All Hustlers best life better world entrepreneur freelance strategy Aug 09, 2020

Sometimes it is only the extreme pressure of circumstances outside of our control that finally give us permission to rethink the direction of our lives, our world.

Things work until they don’t.

As w...

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Get Paid What You Deserve best life better world entrepreneur freelance money strategy Aug 02, 2020
 Whether you work for yourself or someone else, knowing what to ask for when it comes to compensation is tricky. You don’t want to seem entitled, you don’t want to lose out to someone else who a
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