Freelancing

Paul DePodesta wasn’t the typical baseball guy. A Harvard grad with a degree in economics, he was obsessed with baseball statistics, sure. But he never played the game seriously. Fortunately for the Oakland A’s, who hired him, he was good at those statistics. Really, really good. Once, he even plugged in every single statistic from […]

Random Things I Did In My Freelancing Career That Helped Me “Make It” Date: 2009. Location: My parents’ basement.  Tool: A piece of posterboard tacked to the wall.  Goal: $2,000 a month. It felt like an ambitious goal at the time. I had been laid off from my previous job. And while once again on