Field Notes

Notes on capacity, pricing, and saying yes to the right work, for freelancers who bill by the hour.

Memory, then a spreadsheet, then an app: how I learned to answer "can I take this?"

by Julian Rubisch··7 min read

The most expensive question in freelancing takes thirty seconds to ask and months to answer wrong. Here is the embarrassing path I took to get it right, and how you can skip most of it.