Past newsletters
No one is paying attention, churn vs. growth quadrant, + more
I don’t think there has been a single week in the last year when I haven’t told someone in my orbit about the spotlight effect - it feels so central to the struggles of professionals with multiple side hustles, and it comes up in so many of my conversations with members of DiscoLink Club.
The antidote to hating selling yourself, your stalker surface area, + more
I talk to a lot of people in tech with side hustles (👀DiscoLink Club members), and one of the things I hear constantly and without end is: I’m super, super good at the thing I do. I’m really good at building the thing/ doing the thing/ executing on it.
Setting new money goals, negotiating your prices, + more
We’re pretty hell-bent on talking about money openly and frankly with the safety of the DiscoLink Club private Discord server - we set money goals openly, and we share wins (and losses) openly as well. We’ve seen this make more money for members time and time again.
Shut down routines between side projects, how to price work for new clients, + more
Multihyphenates by definition have a lot of plates spinning - whether you’re a full-on solopreneur with a few sources of revenue, or you have a day job alongside a side hustle, context and role switching are parts of your daily life. And they’re exhausting. We expect to be able to jump from one thing to another, but in reality our brains need much more time to catch up.
Practice is the cure for not knowing, getting paid is weird and sometimes hard, and more
After the AMA with Scott Hanselman this Tuesday, we stayed on afterwards to chat about the upcoming Masterclass, and I was struck by something he said that’s so simple, yet couldn’t be more true. The only way out of the nagging discomfort of “not knowing” or learning something new is practice. That’s it. That’s the hack.
It’s not as simple as deciding to take the road not taken, stop trying to wash yesterday’s dirty dishes, + more
As a professional with multiple income streams, you’ve surely made a diversion in routing from what is generally considered the golden pathway to success: work up the ladder at your 9-5 -> become C-suite -> retire on a bed of money.