photo credit: Andrew Stawarz

Now everything that is or can be communicated digitally is free.

This tells you what you have to do to make money from your digitally-conveyed thing, whether it’s music or writing, art or creation of any kind: sell things that are peripheral to your digital efforts, your analog soul, not because your art is less important but because digital is free, and because the market needs a way to affirm that it wants you to continue.

You, and your analog efforts, are still scarce. And you may be paid without being acquired.

2) When the time comes for you to deliver whatever they’ve hired you to do, you’ll have it figured out.

3) By the time they have the meetings where you are used as the excuse for not meeting schedule, you might be on a beach drinking something with an orchid hanging off the side of it. Believe it or not, this will not preclude you being rehired.

The reality is that freelancers are usually brought in when there isn’t any other choice for the client anyway, and if things didn’t happen with maximum speed and efficiency, The Chaos was the reason.