The phrase “personal brand” makes a lot of people uncomfortable. It conjures images of LinkedIn posts that begin with “I was rejected by 47 companies before founding a unicorn startu...
At 2:17 AM on a Tuesday, I was asleep. Somewhere in that same hour, a person I have never met — in a city I have never visited — found my Notion template through a Facebook group post I had written th...
I started my newsletter with 12 subscribers. All of them were people I personally knew. Three were family members who signed up because I asked them to. Two were college friends who probably never ope...
My first affiliate commission was ₹750. I didn’t do anything special to earn it. I wrote two paragraphs in a newsletter about an invoicing tool I’d been using for three weeks. I mentioned ...
In my first week of freelancing, I sent seventeen pitches. I heard back from one person. She replied to say she had already filled the position but would keep my details on file — which is the profess...
I once charged ₹500 to write a 1,200-word article that took me four hours. That works out to ₹125 per hour. Which, at the time, felt reasonable — even generous — because I was new, I was nervous, and ...
Let me tell you what most blogging advice leaves out. It leaves out the six months of writing into the void before anyone reads your work. It leaves out the posts you spent eight hours on that got ele...
I want to tell you about my friend Arjun. Arjun is smart, motivated, and genuinely talented. About eight months ago, he decided to start freelancing on the side. He spent a week building a portfolio w...
I still remember the exact moment it happened. I was sitting cross-legged on my bed at 11:43 PM, laptop balanced on a pillow, eating leftover dal-chawal with one hand and refreshing my phone with the ...