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Miles WardNotion vs. Obsidian: A 6-Month Record of Managing a Consulting Project
This past April, right before a client meeting, I found myself unable to load a Notion page. The café Wi-Fi was unstable, and by the time I tried switching to…
Contracts lost before learning to keep my mouth shut
In a meeting room somewhere in the Perth CBD, I watched the other person put down their pen. Not a good sign. And yet I didn't stop talking. I started explaini…
How I spent a month moving 40 years of ledger books into one spreadsheet
Earlier this year, I got a call from a client's representative. They asked me to compile last quarter's sales data and send it over by the end of the day. A si…
The sales books my manager told me to read — I honestly reviewed them all
Last winter, it was another day I'd failed to hit my cold-call target. After work, I was sitting blankly in a café near Piccadilly Gardens with an americano in…
How to Contact a Mumbai Label Manager Without Any Connections
My hand literally froze over the trackpad as I compressed the demo file. The second I typed the recipient's name into the email field, it hit me — this person…
A week's record of pitching a 3D textile collection to three startups in Bengaluru
Monday morning, I refilled my coffee cup twice before even opening my laptop. I was sitting in a corner seat at a café in Koramangala, rewriting a cold email d…
Seoul Was Not New York: The Day the Presentation Fell Apart
There was a moment when I believed the 47 slides on my laptop screen were perfect. Those five minutes when the conference room lights were dim, the projector f…
What Book Club Fiction Taught Me: The Real Reason Regulars Keep Coming Back
Last Thursday evening, six of us from the book club squeezed into a corner of a café in New Farm and spent well over an hour in what could only be described as…
Sophie JonesInvisible Efficiency: How to Find and Cultivate It in Everyday Life
Spending a day at the airport, you realize that the world is slow and inefficient in more ways than you might think. The helpless expressions of people queuing…
