When I made the switch from code monkey to well… freelance code monkey there were a lot of considered benefits but most importantly was being able to work on projects I want to work on instead of being handed projects/designs I had to work on. In a similar vein, today I asked myself the question [...]
Archive for the ‘Branding’ Category
March 14, 2010
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BA Expats website lying to its users
By Hort in Branding, Buenos Aires, Business Etiquette, TravelTo me, life’s always been simple: Black & White. Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’. Unsurprisingly, I see no difference on the Internet. There are people making it better and people making it worse. To me, BA Expats (marketed: Buenos Aires Expats – Online Community of Expatriates and guide to living in Buenos Aires, [...]
Tags: argentina, ba, baexpats, bsas, Buenos Aires, expatriots, expats
February 8, 2010
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Preceeding a career of full-time Freelance
By Hort in Branding, Career Development, FreelanceThe switch to full-time freelance brings a lot of changes to an otherwise employees fairly predictable schedule. Working a traditional ‘job’ You work to pay bills, buy food, and entertain yourself. You put in 8 hours (or in our industry many more), you go home, you eat, work, sleep, roll-over, hit snooze, eat, work, sleep, [...]
February 8, 2010
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Stop Thinking, Start Blogging
By Hort in Branding, Career DevelopmentAs with any writing profession, often the largest roadblock blogger’s face is lack of inspiration. Content is king in the blog world — any blogger knows that — So when faced with the task of creating great content from an uninspired brain… well, the phrase “you can’t squeeze blood from a stone” comes to mind. [...]
Tags: bloggers block, blogging, writers block
January 16, 2010
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Ground Zero
By Hort in Branding, Career DevelopmentAfter 5 years of a coming soon page and nine revisions of this website never going live due to the death of inspiration, I have given up the dream of a design being perfect and going with the last design, which was created well over three years ago. Sometime’s life just feels that busy. What a coincidental segue…