I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of "just go independent" (opens in new tab)

She does journalism, but this is a fantastic article about what it’s like to go independent, in any way. Bootstrapping a business of any kind is not dissimilar. The hats may be different, but there are still a lot of them. Well worth a read.

(Plus, it’s just a very well written and entertaining post.)

> Instead, either the client or the “reputation management company” decided to try a new tactic. Following a familiar playbook, they copied my Web3 is Going Great post to a free BlogSpot website, then backdated it by one day.

> The goal was to then abuse the notice and takedown process to claim that I had stolen their work, force my webhost to remove the post, and then hope that I was either intimidated by the legalese or too strapped for time to fight it out with my hosting provider.