Freelancing advice
Freedom or Fatigue? Navigating Burnout in Freelance Life
Posted by Paul Silver
This is a guest post from copywriter Rosie Buckley The freelance life is exciting; it’s no secret why people choose this path for their career. You can be your own boss, follow a flexible schedule, and work anywhere you want to. Even though freelancing has many benefits, these can be pushed aside if you start […]
Working for bad payers and meeting notes from 5th March 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 5th March 2025, twelve freelancers met in the Lord Nelson Inn in Brighton to talk all things freelancing and tech. This is some of what we talked about: Blocking over aggressive website crawlers Local games Using AI to help write your own tools Rust and getting into other programming languages Tesla cars being […]
You are your marketing department and notes from our meeting on 26th February 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
A small meeting of eight freelancers on 25th February, but there was a lot of great chat. The smaller meet ups often end up with everyone in the same conversation, which makes for a variety of views and ways to solve the same problem. My notes from our conversations: Work is sporadic in the current […]
Should I grow into an agency?
Posted by Paul Silver
This has been a reoccurring theme through the history of the Farm group. Once you’re doing at least fine as a freelancer, should you grow into an agency? I’m basing the below on the agency I used to work for full time, and the many agencies I’ve known over more than twenty years freelancing. The […]