By the time this publishes I'm on a glacier. Saturday morning, Patrouille des Glaciers, Zermatt to Verbier, fifty-eight kilometres across high alpine terrain in a team of three. No laptop. No signal. No admin.
This post shipped itself. The deploy skill I built and tested live on Friday morning is doing the job right now. Loving this learn as I go style of work.
Finish the Task at Hand, or Nothing Gets Done
On Day 16 I wrote about stealing from Designjoy. One task in the queue. Work it until it's done. Then the next one.
That's the business model. The part I didn't write enough about is the pre-pay.
Pre-pay to start the engagement. That's what lets me turn away other projects. Without it, you're quietly juggling a pipeline of maybes — every warm prospect you haven't said no to yet, every "let me circle back next week." Focus leaks through the gaps. You think you're running one engagement but you're running twelve half-engagements in your head.
With pre-pay, the question is binary. Is this engagement funded this month or not? If yes, it gets undivided attention on whatever task sits at the top of the queue. If no, it politely waits. One in, one out, finished before the next one starts.
True to Form
I'm finishing my own task today. Thirteen or fourteen gruelling hours across glaciers, through the night with my bros. Leaving all work behind, and full on focus bro time.
The skill runs. The post publishes. The system holds without me. That's not a hypothetical — that's what's happening right now, as you read this.
And when I travel later this summer, I can tee up four or five posts with future publish dates and the cron does the rest. Streak unbroken, 365 intact, no screen required.
One task. Pre-paid. Finished. Next.
Revenue: $0. Clients: 2. Prospects: 5.
Day 22 of 365.