Four Hour Freedom
Simon TheakstonA weekly newsletter for people building a business around their life — not the other way round. Tools, systems and thinking for solopreneurs who want independence without the hustle.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 106 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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I’ve Been on Claude Pro for Six Months and Still Haven’t Needed to Upgrade. Here’s Why.
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My first mistake with Claude was saying please and thank you.
Not a serious mistake - but a revealing one. I was treating it like a conversation with a person, padding every prompt with politeness. “...
Tana Changed. I Haven’t Decided What to Do Yet. Here’s Where I Am.
I was part of Tana’s original beta programme.
Not because it was ready - it wasn’t - but because what it was trying to do was interesting in a way nothing else was.
The concept of supertags, where a single tag could define a type of reco...
How MCP Servers Turned Claude Into the Hub of My Four-Hour Business
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Before MCP servers, I used a spreadsheet.
Not because spreadsheets are good for this (they’re not!) but because there was no better option.
Every morning, I’d open my calendar to check what was sched...
I Built a Financial Dashboard Using Claude Code Without Writing a Single Line of Code
I’ve spent years paying for software I couldn’t build.
Dashboard tools that showed me a fraction of what I actually needed. Developer quotes that made me wince. The quiet assumption, built into every conversation about financial visibility...
Jump Desktop: the app I use from the sofa, the coffee shop, and the waiting room
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A few weeks ago I was sitting in a hospital waiting room before a physio appointment. Forty minutes, my iPad, and nowhere to be.
Six months ago I’d have read something or stared at my phone.
Instead...
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I rebuilt my business post-stroke on four hours a day. If you're a solopreneur who's always busy but never moving forward, the problem isn't effort, it’s tools and processes. I write about both. Every Saturday for free.
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