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11 Jul 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nubiwrites
PayPal? Not available in Nigeria. Stripe? Blocked. Some clients won't even work with Nigerian accounts. For a long time I felt like the system was designed to keep us out. Every time I found an opportunity, there was a wall. And I got tired of it. So...
10 Jul 2026 1 minute read 4 comments Nubiwrites
Everyone said "there's no money in Nigeria." I said let me try something first. Last month I made $217 — that's roughly ₦350,000 — using just my phone. No laptop. No office. No connection. Just data and consistency. Here's exactly what I did: 1. I pi...
1 Jul 2026 4 minute read 0 comments ClaCucc
A designer I know finished a three-month contract for a client two time zones away and got paid the way she now insists on: a USDC transfer that landed in her wallet before she had closed the invoice tab. No wire form, no intermediary bank taking a c...
22 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Debesh Choudhury
A friend of mine recently informed me that he won't optimize his LinkedIn profile now because he obtained an extension of his temporary postdoc job! Is he correct in his action plan? Maybe yes, or maybe not. What do you think? I think differ...
18 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred
In "From Songs to Silence to Words: On Building a Body of Work and What Comes After" I like this candid statement by Smoljanović: "These spaces are treated not as stages, but as archives. There is no algorithm to please here, no trend to chase." This...
14 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman
Sometimes a new article picks up the direction of this blog from the energy of the previous one. After discussing budgeting in entrepreneurship, I realised how often we overlook the area where professional freedom meets financial instability: freelan...
2 Oct 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
"Yesterday it worked.Today, it is not working.Windows is like that."— GNU Joke Haiku error messages [1] A number of weeks ago, I Installed node.js and npm on my computer, using the official repository packages for Ubuntu (Plucky Puffin). I then pro...
10 Mar 2025 2 minute read 0 comments karoshi31
1. Escape the Race to the Bottom: Skill Over Scarcity Problem: Newcomers often compete by slashing prices, devaluing their work and the market.Opportunity: Specialize to stand out. Master a high-demand skill: Move beyond generic offerings (e.g.,...
12 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti
The simple secret to online work being amazingly successful is one very important thing: you have love what you do. If you go to platforms like Medium, they are bombarded with click-bait articles trying to grab readers with headlines like, "How I Mad...
18 Aug 2024 3 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti
So I’ve been looking for a new source of work to replace what used to be a steady second-job/freelancing role I was in for at least a decade. While the traditional route of a part-time position has been a whole lot of ghosting at best and simple auto...
