5 things I used to believe when I started freelancing (until I changed my mind)
This week marks 5 years and six months since I left my cubicle to become a freelance writer. Although you don’t make anniversaries with half years, I thought it was as good a time as any to look back at five things I used to believe when I started, but no...
How to calculate your minimum freelance writing rates
During my first year as a freelancer, any time a prospect would ask for a quote, you would have seen me celebrate for a minute or two, and then change my expression completely and mutter something like: 'Oh, crap, what do I do now?' That's when I...
How Freelance Professionals Can Beat Procrastination
Procrastination is a fact of life, and freelance professionals are not immune to it. You cannot get rid of it completely, but you can fight back.
5 Things Your Content Marketing Writer Is Not Telling You
How much do you know of what happens behind the scenes of a content marketing writer’s business? Here you can take a quick look.
Insect meal means business: an interview with Cricket One co-founder Bicky Nguyen
Ready or not, they’re coming: thanks to the new and simplified Novel Food Regulation, insects are now one step closer to becoming an alternative source of protein for humans. From this year, selling insect-based ingredients in the EU will be much less complicated for...
An Empty Chair at Impossible Food’s Dinner and Food-Tech Casualties
(September's issue of my newsletter. To subscribe scroll down and follow the pop-up on the bottom right corner) Impossible Foods makes meat-tasting hamburgers that don’t kill animals, can feed more people and help save the planet. Who would dare not love them? GMO...
Impossible Foods, GMOs and the FDA: The 3 Questions Behind a Storm in a Teacup
With the help of notable backers, billions of dollars and cutting-edge food-tech science, Impossible Foods is organizing a burger fest where meat eaters, vegans, vegetarians and environmentalists can sit together and enjoy a plant-based burger that tastes, looks and...
Pink Chickens, a Flawed Bull and Amazon Stealing the Show
Here's the July issue of my food-tech curated newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every 4-6 weeks, you can subscribe here. The latest in design: pink chickens What do you get when you mix environmental activism, design and gene editing technology? Pink chickens!...
Why Stevia May Win and Your Start-Up May Fail
The search for a sugar substitute that does less damage to people's health and gives the same feelings is in full swing, but food technologists are finding out it's not an easy task. The thing is: sugar is bad, but it's also a chemical masterpiece. Right now, stevia...