Having a good relationship with clients is essential for freelancers, but even more important is being the right person for the right customer. For this reason we must not be afraid to explain well who we are and especially who we are NOT.

This is the first worry of every developer who is considering the idea of leaving their job to embrace the freelance life. How will I get customers?

Before leaving for the summer holidays I want to talk about one of the most useful and nice tools I use in my work: Notion

Let’s start a series of posts about the best tools for freelancers. My must-have is Clockify, a very cool time tracker with tons of super useful features.

In the previous post I pretended to be a teacher to learn about communication. Now let’s go on with this strange but interesting experience.

Explaining things is all about abstraction, and so is programming. So, why do so many developers (myself included) struggle to communicate with non-tech people? I tried to answer this question by walking in a teacher’s shoes for a day.

About a year ago I decided to leave the company I’ve worked for the past seven years to become a freelancer. It wasn’t an easy decision at all because I was very fond of the company and colleagues, but I felt that my place was no longer there. One year later I can’t be happier with this choice.