When you work for yourself you have to do everything for yourself – there’s no safety net behind you. This was starkly put back into focus earlier this week when my laptop crashed while I was in the middle of a design piece.

Yes I’ve found out what the problem was.

Yes I’ve mitigated for it in the future.

Yes I had to do more work because,

No, I hadn’t been saving the piece regularly.

Save yourself, save your work, save your reputation.