Tag: hours

  • Time tracking takeaways

    Earlier this week I mentioned I track my time pretty closely, and by some coincidence I stumbled across Jurgen Appelo talking about the same topic today. I couldn’t get a comment to post on his blog (Jurgen, if it helps, I’m on Safari 5.1,) so here’s an expanded edition of what I was going to say […]

  • The Four Hour Work Week and the future of “Real Jobs”

    Last week I ran my company from the cottage. I had decent enough internet, but I didn’t want to to be too good, since the point was to relax as much as I could while keeping the wheels turning.  Over the course of 9 days, I probably averaged close to the mythical four hour work […]

  • Entrepreneurship: hourly rates come from hourly costs

    One of the key lessons I’ve learned this year as head of my own service-based company is to figure out my hourly costs to better gauge my hourly rates.  Take all the company expenses (rent, staff, training, hosting, telecom, etc) for the month, add on some level of actual income, divide it by 20 for […]