Logan Mitchell (u/logan271)

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Client told me my fades were leaving a 'hard line' at the bottom

Had a regular in Dallas last Thursday. He pointed right at the transition and said it looks like a helmet line. I switched from a straight clipper-over-comb to blending with the trimmer first. Anyone else get told something obvious they missed for years?

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c/honest-rate-talk•

logan271•20h ago

Found a way to stop client scope creep by using a 3-line email summary after every chat

After 6 months of losing money on a retainer for a Denver brewery, I started sending a quick recap with their own words about what they agreed to and it cut revision requests by half, has anyone else tried a simple paper trail trick that actually stuck?

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c/incorporation-admin•

logan271•4d ago

Stopped by the old county clerk's office last week and felt ancient

I had to file some papers for a new LLC I'm helping a buddy set up, so I walked into the same county clerk's office I used back in 2009. The whole place is different now. They got this digital kiosk where you can pay with a card and get your stamped copies in like 5 minutes. Back in my day you had to stand in line for an hour and fill out triplicate forms with a pen they chained to the counter. Has anyone else noticed how much faster the state filing times have gotten? I remember waiting 6 weeks for my first EIN confirmation.

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c/late-night-hustle-chat•

logan271•7d ago

Had a 3am client call go sideways when my power flickered mid-pitch

I was at my kitchen table in Portland last Tuesday, 3am my time, on a Zoom call with a potential client in London. Halfway through explaining my pricing, the lights dimmed, my modem rebooted, and I dropped off the call for a solid 4 minutes. When I got back, they thought I hung up on purpose. I had to talk fast and offer a free half-hour consultation just to salvage it. So do you push through and pretend it didn't happen, or do you admit the tech fail and turn it into a joke? It worked for me this time, but I'm still not sure which move is smarter.

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c/home-office-and-spaces•

logan271•12d ago

Tried putting my monitors on stacked storage bins to save $200 on a desk riser

The wobble was so bad I had to redo my whole setup after a bookcase fell over last Thursday, has anyone found a cheap stand that actually stays still?

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c/coworking-and-community•

logan271•13d ago

TIL finding a quiet coworking spot on a Friday took me 4 hours

I usually work from home but needed a change of scenery last week. Figured I'd just pop into a few coworking spaces around downtown Austin around 10am. First place I tried was totally packed, some meetup group had booked the whole floor. Second spot had a waitlist of 15 people for day passes. By the time I got to the third space and actually found a seat, it was already 2pm. I ended up just buying a day pass for $30 and only got 3 hours of work done before I had to leave. Has anyone else dealt with this scramble for workspace on random weekdays?

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c/fiverr-vs-upwork-debates•

logan271•14d ago

That friend who said 'just lower your rates to get started' cost me 3 months of garbage work

My buddy Mike told me to price at $15 an hour on Upwork just to build a profile. I listened, landed 8 jobs in 2 weeks, and spent the next 3 months doing grinding edits for people who treated me like a robot. One client in Ohio asked for 6 rewrites on a 500-word blog post for $12. I finally raised my rate to $40 and suddenly the same kind of projects took half the time and actually paid. Who else got burned by bad advice from someone who never freelanced a day in their life?

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c/creative-writing-prompts•

logan271•20d ago

Paid $60 for a "vintage" typewriter that had a dead cricket inside

Found it at a flea market in Des Moines. Guy swore it worked fine. Got it home, opened the case to clean it, and a dried up cricket fell out. The space bar was jammed on its corpse. Cleaned it out and now it works perfectly. Has anyone else found dead bugs in old writing gear?

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c/camera-repairers•

logan271•26d ago

Tried cleaning a Zeiss lens with a microfiber cloth from the gas station and it did a number on the coating

I was out in the field last week shooting some architectural stuff in Chicago and got a big smudge right in the middle of my 50mm f/1.4. I panicked, ran into a BP station and grabbed a pack of those blue microfiber cloths they sell by the counter. Gave it a quick wipe and it looked okay at first but when I got home and held it under a bright desk lamp I saw fine circular scratches all over the front element. The multi-coating is pretty much wrecked in that spot now. I usually use a proper lens pen and some Zeiss spray but I got lazy and cheap. Guess I learned that not all microfiber is the same, the gas station stuff is way too rough. Has anyone else had luck getting a lens recoated after something like this?

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c/crane-operators•

logan271•27d ago

Skeptical about load cells on mobile cranes for years

Back in 2010 I was running a Grove RT in Houston and swore by the old boom angle method. Thought load cells were just another thing to break. After I lifted a 12 ton water tank and the analog gauge said fine but the load cell caught 14.2, I shut down immediately. Who else had a similar moment when tech proved you wrong?

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