Freelancers and consultants: when did you last raise your rates with a client you already had? How did that conversation go?
Showed a sales team a system that finds new opportunities and drafts their outreach. First reaction was resistance. Then I put this diagram on screen and the questions changed completely @wez0ps
Yesterday I almost skipped the workout after all those calls. Changed my mind and did it anyway. 40 minutes of cardio, 162 bpm average and almost 16 minutes in zone 5. Brutal session
I blocked my afternoons as "No meetings" this week. Now let's see how many invites land on top of it anyway
After every session my app asks for effort, energy, fatigue and mood. By December I'll have a year of data for a dashboard. Today: energy 10 before, 10 after
And the worst part: I haven't seen Tocino or Churro once today. My wife stayed home and took care of them while I was on calls
18 meetings this week and today I didn't get a single hour to build anything. I had to block my afternoons as "No meetings" just to get my work done
Today was so full of meetings that I stopped at 5 and lay down on the couch. I was too stressed to sleep well and bit my gum in my sleep
I watched AI Gone Wild on Netflix and the word "evil" bothered me more than the incident itself. I wrote about why: datalevi.substack.com/p/ai-o…
Looks like no workout today. The calls took everything I had and the app is just sitting there. Pretty disappointed
My workout app finally works. 40 minutes of cardio and strength, 137 BPM average, and the Myzone band tracked 98% of the session on my iPad. This time the picky user is me
14,000 hours on Upwork. That's roughly seven years of full-time work, across 42 jobs, all in HR tech, automation and data. 100% Job Success still makes me proud
Article #4 is up on Substack, and the one that went out was version 4. Seeing four posts in that list makes me want to keep writing
The groomer shaved off Churro's mustache this weekend. Now he gives me this very serious look and I can't keep a straight face 😂
WezOps is officially ready to work with enterprise companies, backed by @UseCorgi. The process was way harder than I expected. I talked to 12 insurers and Corgi was the only one that actually helped, in less than 24 hours. Thank you
I was 6 when I found Street Fighter II, in a pharmacy outside my mom's work. Most days I had no coins, so I stood there and watched other kids play. Still counts
Meetings every 30 minutes from 11am to 2pm today, back to back. That's why there's no coffee post. Whoever made 30 minutes the default meeting length owes me three hours.
Churro and Tocino got invited to a birthday party today. The birthday boy smiled for every photo. Tocino, my old man, gave us one face and that was it.
