"In 2021, all the freelancers on Upwork combined have made $3.5B. There are over 770,000 active clients on this platform." Source?!

Every generation has its tech heroes, among other more super (fictional) and less regular (real-life) ones. For the Millennials and Gen Zs, that hero is undeniably Elon Musk. For my Gen X, AKA the “forgotten” and/or “lost” generation, that was/is Kim Dotcom. What could these two distinguished and controversial individuals…

I believe it would be interesting for you to hear how it’s possible to begin a discussion about the Prohibition Era and Chicago in 1920s, and to eventually end up with spray and pray marketing. So, here’s what happened. I was in the company of proven movie and marketing enthusiasts…

In 2020, I caught Upwork red-handed for posting fake jobs to keep freelancers bidding. Upwork admitted that there were so-called “test jobs” and promised to refund freelancers for wasted “connects.” I’m doing it again in this story. This time is different, even more severe, and expensive. Ignorance isn’t always bliss…

Have you seen a movie called — The Purge? Well, you should. That’s exactly what Upwork has been doing to the freelancers. You read it right! Upwork is purging our fellow freelancers on an epic scale. So, what’s going on and why? The Email From Hell It all begins with…

There are thousands of articles online about the freelance project proposals. You can collect them all in a series of books — how to write a winning proposal, what to include or not, including the best templates, etc. …

Look, I don’t have the time to go through each of these famous names’ bios online (Wiki and stuff). So, I’m gonna make this wild and blind guess. They would have only if they could have! What’s that supposed to mean? The majority of successful entrepreneurs I know or I…

There’s no money in the Star Trek Universe. Why? Because El Capitan Jean-Luc Picard says so: The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity. OK. But, here’s the catch. Actually, two. …

There are always two sides to every story. In this particular case, there’s the third side too, for me a personal one. My Side of the Story Just to be clear, I’m not an Amazon employee, and Jeff Bezos and I ain’t buddies. I just happened to be one of…