Our minds are complex things. There's our conscious mind - this is the bit that's reading these words, mulling them over, thinking about their meaning. You can probably hear

The stuff that holds us back isn't always what it first seems. When software development was my primary business, I always under-charged. Not by a small amount, but by huge amounts.

Email is one of the best ways of staying in touch with people. Not when it comes to project management - group emails are a thing of great horror. But when it comes

I stole this one from Jonathan Stark, who helps software developers move away from hourly billing. He says he saw a post on Twitter from a web-designer. It was along the lines of:

You're meeting someone. They ask what you do. You say, well, I'm an X. I do Y, I do Z. I even do some A, B and C. Oh