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Set penalty: if two consecutive weeks show red cells, you pay $50 to a NGO you can’t stand; if all green, they owe you a LinkedIn recommendation within 24 h.
Now audit the bottom 33 % fee projects. Check which required that under-advertised edge. If none did, purge them from the site tonight—they dilute positioning. Replace the empty slots with two new case studies that spotlight the edge skill and match the magnet-layer keywords.
Create a Recruiter-Ready LinkedIn Grid in One Weekend
Swap your LinkedIn headline with 120 characters of searchable syntax: "Motion Design Vet 8 yr Adobe/CC + C4D AR hits 3 M views seeking 150k+ remote gigs". Recruiters filter by title + tool + result + salary, and this string nails it.
curl -I -L "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/d/FILE_ID"
Watch for HTTP/2 200 and content-type: image/*. Anything else (302 to a auth screen) bombs.
Cache-bust during development by adding ?v=timestamp to the URL; Chrome DevTools "Disable cache" alone will not revalidate the CDN copy.
Build a 5-Minute Ritual to Start Deep Work Sessions
Twist a 5-minute kitchen timer. 120 s: close every browser tab minus one blank page; silence phone and toss it screen-down outside. 60 s: сайт pour a 250 ml glass with ice water, drink half, park the rest on the desk. 60 s: open a unruled notebook, pen the current time plus one sentence ending "Today I will…"; underscore the verb. 30 s: slap on the same closed-back headphones, fire up the same 45 Hz binaural beat at 40 % volume. 30 s: reset the timer for 45 min, press enter, type the first task symbol (#, *, →) in the blank doc; don’t stop until the bell.
Launch a 5-Day Outreach Sprint With Trackable Links
Send 25 personalized emails on Monday, each with a one-off UTM-marked URL pointing to your GitHub repo’s README anchor "#demo". Use utm_source=reachout&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wk19 so GA later reveals which subject pulled the highest clone count.
Map Personal Values to Daily Tasks in 15 Minutes
Snag a blank sheet, split three columns. Left: list five core-values that hit you when you imagine your eulogy—mine were reliability, mastery, solitude, impact, equity. Middle: copy today’s calendar, 30-minute slots. Right: grade each block 0–2 on how directly it fuels one word. A 2 = crystal; 0 = zero. Total in under six minutes.
Capture inputs in a compact 5-column Google sheet: client AOV, site visits, starting rate, AOV again, project duration. Auto-calculate upside with =(traffic*conv_incr*AOV)-cost. Paste the bottom-line number into the proposal. Metric-driven quotes convert 2.3 × faster than time-based rates.
Title the email subject "four-week sprint question–YourSurname" and attach the PDF. Send Tuesday 07:14 local time; open rates peak between 07:00 and 07:30 according to Mailchimp 2023 aggregate data. Expect a 38 % response rate within two nights if the recipient’s last blog post hinted about onboarding junior collaborators.
Quota: 1 GB repo size, 100k MB transfer/month, ten builds/hour–enough for 20k unique hits on a lightweight site. Exceed it, compress images with tinypng.com and lazy-load below-the-fold pics using loading="lazy".
Payment is swap, not ACH. You front three assets: a template-ready After Effects template that shaves their repeatable work by a juicy 0.18, a Notion board that maps every festival deadline they chase, and a Python script that batch-renames 4K renders to festival-submission specs. They return with exposure placement: your handle in the end-card of their next Vimeo Staff Pick and a 20-second shout-out at
On page one, embed the verbatim brief blurb in 11-pt Courier. Beneath it, attach a red-ink photocopy of your initial thumbnail; the smudges prove revision speed. Facing the page: a single screenshot of the polished piece plus a 42-word caption that declares the trackable outcome ("newsletter CTR +27 %, two days after launch").
Build 5-motion micro-animation in After Effects → exported 1920×1080 .mov under 2 MB, plays on Chrome without frame drops
Pen 500-word UX case study → scores ≥ 70 on Hemingway, receives three up-votes on Designer News
Present 10-minute portfolio walkthrough → audience retention ≥ 80 % on Zoom replay, two recruiters request follow-up call
Request a 30-minute calendar slot. Open with: "I will boss the work; you supply critique and doors. Here is the contract." Hand over the PDF plus a Doodle link pre-loaded with 6 Tuesday 08:00 slots.
Watch energy, not minutes. Snap heart-rate variability at your desk with a 45 € smart ring; when HRV slides 8 ms below your 7-day mean, switch to low-cognitive duties—refiling assets. Two months of this bio-feedback lifted daily deep-focus from 94 min to 137 min in a Finnish study.
Carve out a micro "laser block" at 09:17 each weekday; mute your device, launch one file, and hammer three concise answers to "Who gains today?
" Cambridge trials show this tiny ritual boosts morale by 31 % in two weeks.
