I assume you mean freelancing. I tried that too, but found that I'm not good at sales/marketing side of things, so I went back to a regular job.

I don’t freelance / sell my time

So how do you pay your rent? Most of us aren't working for others because we like it.

Apple ecosystem apps w/ IAP

That's awesome. You're living my dream.

The App Store is so competitive nowadays though. Any advice for newcomers? (without giving away your trade secrets). How did you come up with your app ideas?

I will start blogging in the open about this stuff because I have enough moat

I target language learning but that was just enough to escape wage labor and have irons burning now. My ideas all come from various hobby interests I know well, and focusing on problems that in some way help other people aspire toward making money themselves. I also find strategies where I can scale without costs or high maintenance needs (eg moving away from servers which can be spun as privacy consideration, despite my devops career; iCloud helps here)

Another tip is that now with SwiftUI enabling much easier cross platform mac/iOS native apps, there’s opportunity to cover those platforms solo where most incumbents are iOS exclusive or one platform is under resourced

I’m also now learning about worker syndicalism and trying to figure out how to build up some organized efforts beyond my solo work without taking on investors or employees

Thank you. Is there an email list I can get on or something else I can check to see when you debut your blog?

only active social is twitter @manabioSRS which I will cross promote later this year into the new project

oops typo, @manabiSRS

How is an 8 hour a day shift incompatible with healthy sleep?

You don’t know many full time workers who struggle with sleep?

Sometimes I find myself awake and alert after 4 hours of sleep. Now when I crash some hours later after that, I sleep for a couple more hours and work more after instead of suffering through meetings and commute without break. I no longer use an alarm and let myself wake naturally. If I'm incapacitated from insomnia, I do housework or rest and work as my energy returns. Employers have no tolerance for this kind of flexibility beyond some isolated incidents. Yes I work with others too, this doesn't only work for lone wolf arrangements.

I'll add that I also suffer from RSI and the same applies there: if I injure my hands, I can make my own decision to use them less for some time to give them the rest they need, and shift what sort of work I do or how I spend my time meanwhile to accommodate (because I don't have rigidly defined role expectations as wage earners do).

Lots of folks don't work at the same time daily, and more work a shift that makes them sleep less due to children (Second shift, but has to get up to get the kid off to school). A good deal of other folks have long commutes or can't get out after 8 hours (their shift is 8 hours plus an hour lunch or standard 10 hours).

It doesn't seem that hard to get unhealthy sleep patterns in a workday.