Recent Entries

• The Side Hustle Economy Is Changing How We Think About Work

  by Marcus Thompson May 5
  When I started freelance writing on the side five years ago, I thought of it as a safety net. A little extra income, some creative outlet, nothing that would fundamentally reshape my career trajectory. I was wrong. What started as a few hundred dollars a month eventually became a legitimate second i...

• The Unglamorous Reality of Building Something From Nothing

  by Marcus Thompson May 5
  I started my first business at 23 with about two thousand dollars and a lot of confidence I didn't deserve. Nobody tells you about the 3 AM panic attacks or the months where you're eating instant ramen while your friends from college are getting promoted at Fortune 500 companies. The entrepreneurshi...

• Making Social Media Work For You Instead of Against You

  by Marcus Thompson May 5
  I've spent the last five years watching people use social media, and I've noticed something interesting: most of us are doing it backwards. We post without thinking, scroll for hours without gaining anything, and wonder why we feel more disconnected than ever. I decided to change my approach, and it...

• The Productivity Myth Nobody Talks About

  by Marcus Thompson May 5
  I used to think productivity was about doing more. I'd wake up at 5 AM, color-code my calendar, use three different apps to track my tasks, and still feel like I was falling behind. Then something shifted for me around six months ago, and I realized I'd been approaching the entire concept backwards....

• The Streaming Wars Have Changed How We Actually Experience Music

  by Marcus Thompson May 5
  I've been thinking a lot lately about how different my relationship with music has become compared to just ten years ago. Back then, I'd buy albums, rip them to iTunes, and listen to the same songs over and over until I knew every lyric by heart. There was friction in the process, sure, but that fri...