Upcoming Newsletter Calendar

A guide to upcoming newsletter themes if you are interested in contributing.

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Planned Themes

Below is a short theme title, description and the value to our readers.

Design for Travel in 2026

Thur. Jan 15th
Lifestyle

Description: Use 2026 to intentionally “design for travel” by baking trips into their calendar, workload, and budget instead of waiting for free time to appear.

Reader Value: Travel and exploration tends to make location‑independent professionals more creative, more resilient, and more satisfied with their work–life blend, even when the trips are short or infrequent. The key benefits show up in mindset, performance, relationships, and long‑term wellbeing.

Personal Productivity in 2026

Thur. Jan 22nd
Working Remotely

Description: Make 2026 easier and more effective by setting a few concrete systems-focused resolutions around time, procrastination, clutter, email, and meetings. The key is to keep habits small, scheduled, and observable so they survive beyond January.

Reader Value: Earn more from the same (or fewer) hours, protect your flexibility, and create a more sustainable, less stressful career. It turns raw autonomy into actual freedom instead of always feeling behind or “on”.

Protecting Your Wellness in 2026

Thur. Jan 29th
Wellness

Description: Use 2026 to develop practices to protect your mental health with simple stress rituals, design work-life integration on your terms, and weave in consistent exercise blocks into the existing day instead of “finding extra time”.

Reader Value: Focusing on stress management, work-life integration, and exercise gives location-independent professionals a direct edge in mental health, productivity, and long-term career sustainability. It turns flexibility into a genuine advantage instead of a fast track to burnout or distraction.”

Career Advancement in the Age of AI

Thur. Feb 5th
Career Advancement

Description: Combining human skills with AI for career growth means intentionally pairing what humans do best—judgment, relationships, and creativity—with what AI does best—speed, pattern recognition, and automation. People who master both are already earning more and moving into new, higher-impact roles.

Reader Value: Flexible professionals should treat AI as a leverage engine. The ones who win will deliberately build AI into how they think, work, and signal their value.

Premium In-Person Time

Thur. Feb 12th
Remote Community

Description: Distributed teams and entrepreneurs can treat in-person time as a strategic asset: anchor it in the calendar, give it a clear purpose, and design lightweight, structured retreats that create shared story, trust, and momentum for the rest of the year online.

Reader Value: Retreats, masterminds and meetups that balance productivity with deep social bonding are instrumental to maintain trust remotely.

The "Async-First" Advantage: Reclaiming Time and Focus

Thur. Feb 19th
Working Remotely

Description: The "async-first" philosophy is a communication strategy that prioritizes written, asynchronous methods and reserves real-time interactions for essential discussions.

Reader Value: Async-first lets remote and independent professionals dramatically cut meeting fatigue and reclaim long stretches of deep work, while signaling that they are disciplined, outcome-focused leaders rather than reactive “Zoom responders.”

Health as a KPI: Integrating Health into the Workflow

Thur. Feb 26th

Lifestyle

Description: Treat physical health as a KPI by making it a measurable driver of your billable capacity, decision quality, and creative output—not a hobby you do after “real work.

Reader Value: In a remote setting, no one sees you skipping lunch or sitting for 9 hours straight. You must become your own Chief Health Officer.

Updated Saturday, 10 January 2026