Should you charge hourly? Day rate? Per-song? Flat project rate?

It’s hard to know which pricing model to use as an engineer. 

A typical model, of course, is charging an hourly rate for your services. 

Seems pretty logical…

But I believe this is actually the worst way to value you work. 

I’ve got a quick story that illustrates this perfectly, involving Picasso and a napkin. 

 

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