Hey Reader, It was just another typical morning in August 2021. Summer vacation was over and I was on my way to the office. I had a hybrid job at the time, so 2-3 office days per week were mandatory. I remember getting stuck in traffic (again) and wondering: "Is this really what the next 30-40 years will look like?" It was at that moment that I made a promise to myself: I was not about to let this be my path until retirement. I was going to figure this whole "remote work" thing out. After...
11 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Everyone I know has seen The Odyssey these days. Homer wrote the story about 2,800 years ago. Now we see its adaptation in IMAX. Ten years, one man, one impossible trip home. If you're currently hunting for a remote job (or really any job), you probably watched that film differently. You know the feeling of rowing towards an island that keeps moving. So let's talk about the map and the sailing instructions, shall we? The map The door is small. Indeed's Hiring Lab tracks remote and...
24 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, The most common message in my inbox right now is some version of this: "I built a digital product, but nobody's buying it." Whether it's a journal, a course, or something else entirely, it's finished, it's live on a store, and ...crickets. A few views, no sales, and a lot of self-doubt. "Is the product the problem?" "AM I the problem?" Here's what I've learned from my journey so far. Initially, my first product didn't sell either. It was live, it was genuinely useful, and nothing...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, A few months ago, I almost walked away from all of this. I’d been posting on Threads for months into near-total silence. A few dozen views on a good day, the odd like, and after all of it, 290 followers. I was convinced I just wasn’t built for it. Then I stopped guessing and wrote one post for one specific person. It did more than 28,000 views. The floor of my account lifted that week and never dropped back. Since then, I’ve grown from 290 to over 55,000 followers, pulled millions...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, When I started on Threads, I had zero followers and no real plan. For about five months it crawled. Fifty views on a good day, and 290 followers to show for the whole stretch. Did I think about packing it in? More than once. A few of my friends had even started asking why I was still bothering with "that Threads thing." Then one post changed the whole picture. I'd written it for one specific person: someone stuck in a 9-to-5 they'd long outgrown, watching the clock. For once I...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read