business.
5 notes on business — newest first.
The 8 questions I ask before I take a freelance contract
Across DataIns, Imajiku, and direct work for Hino Motors, I learned which conversations decide whether a contract ends with shipped work or with regret. The intake script I now refuse to skip.
Making money with AI from Indonesia — the math that actually works
Most AI YouTube monetization advice assumes US-priced cards and US infra. From Jakarta or Jogja, the math bends — Stripe access, payout fees, infra cost in IDR, prices that don't snap your audience in half.
Automate, expand, hold — what 33 money videos converge on
33 videos on money and finance. The macro thesis: fiat trends to zero, automation beats willpower, time-in-market beats timing, and human capital outperforms financial capital when you're starting near zero.
Dan Martell — the Buyback Loop, applied to a freelance engineer
Dan Martell's 5-video freedom-and-wealth playlist runs on one operating loop — audit, transfer, fill. I ran it on a one-person engineering practice; the friction told me where the framework holds and where it bends.
Hormozi for engineers — what 11 strangers' businesses taught me about my own
Hormozi's 'Building Businesses for Strangers' playlist is eleven compressed consulting sessions. The specific advice changes every video. The diagnostic underneath doesn't. Notes from watching it as a freelance engineer.