Anna Burgess Yang

Freelance Fintech Writer + Product-Led Content | Operations Advice for Solopreneurs | Career pivots are fun. 🎉

I'm a freelance content marketer and journalist.
I share practical tips for solopreneurs.
I also like naps.

In 2021, I quit my job as a corporate executive at a fintech and pivoted to an entirely new career. 18 months later, I decided to bet on myself. I became a full-time freelance writer and solopreneur.

My solo business grew quickly because of my former exec experience. I can do more with my time because I know how to use tools and automate processes. Solopreneur life has always felt freeing for me, instead of overwhelming.

I want to empower other one-person businesses to take control of their time, streamline their processes, and free themselves from boring/tedious work.

I create resources for other solopreneurs including eBooks, courses, and my newsletter. I also provide 1:1 consulting for people looking to improve their business operations.

Gain freedom in your solopreneur life through optimization. Check out my resources here. ⏬

start.annabyang.com

Content Workflow Consultant

I help content creators, freelancers, and agencies manage their content - for themselves and their clients.

- I can build a 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁. Publish a thing? I'll use automation to build a to-do for you on future date(s) to turn that blog post into two LinkedIn posts. Or turn a LinkedIn post into a Tweet. Or re-share a link to your Substack. Repurposing is easy. I'll make the repurposing calendar a piece of cake.

- I can build a 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆. Everything you publish on your blog, Substack, newsletter, etc. will automatically feed into a list. I use automation to connect links to drafts, artwork, clients, and more. No more digging: one central location to manage all of your content.

- I can do a 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄. We'll do a video call and you show me what you're currently doing. I'll prepare a doc with recommendations for improvement, tools to check out, and other tips to simplify your life.

Running a solo business can be really lonely. 

Most days, it's just me and my computer (and my cats!) 

Client communication is either email or Slack. I have very few meetings.

Before I started working for myself, I worked remotely for years. But it was different. I could always ping someone or call a colleague. That doesn't exist when you're running a solo business.

So I've built connections on purpose.

I've joined freelance communities. 
I connect with other freelancers on LinkedIn. 
I've done co-working sessions where we hop on a video call together for focused work time.

Fellow solopreneurs have taught me a lot - especially about things like pricing and handling difficult client situations.

Solo work isn't for everyone. If you're considering it, keep in mind that you'll spend a lot of time alone. And surround yourself with people who "get it."

Freelance Fintech Writer + Product-Led Content | Solopreneur Operations Advice | Career pivots are fun. 🎉

Content Leader at Writer | Host of Humans of AI podcast | People-first, curiosity-led, purpose-driven

I'm passionate about helping companies create a meaningful impact in the world.  And the best way to make meaningful impact is through building relationships with the people who need and will love their products the most.

Here’s what I bring as a content marketing leader:

A people-first approach to everything from management to audience research.

A deep understanding of the mechanics of storytelling.

An insatiable sense of curiosity about people, learning, and technology. 

A crafty sense of strategic planning—I’m a natural systems thinker who sees the processes necessary to achieving big-picture outcomes.  

A history of successful collaborations with product design, sales, and customer success teams. 

A journalistic approach to writing— turning primary research and subject matter expert interviews into engaging stories and actionable insights.

Alaura Weaver 🌈♾️

I had to send this message to my leadership team this morning. If it sounds alarmist, it’s because things are genuinely alarming.

Please repost to spread the word. The news media is under-reporting what's happening.

Alaura Weaver

Content leader at WRITER | Host of Humans of AI podcast | People-first, curiosity-led, purpose-driven (opinions are mine)

I've been using AI iteratively — like an editor working with a writer — and I didn't realize that's not how most people work with it at all.

This came up in my conversation with Matan-Paul Shetrit in our latest episode of Humans of AI, and it opened up something I haven't heard anyone else talking about: the feedback culture gap.

I come from writing and theatre — both fields grounded in giving notes, taking direction, iterating toward a bigger vision. 

That's why I naturally treat AI like a collaborator, not a vending machine. But here's what struck me: even within creative fields, not everyone knows how to give good direction. Not all writers can provide editorial guidance that actually improves a piece. Not all actors know how to steer a performance toward the larger narrative.

That's why we have editors, directors, and managers. Specialized roles with specialized training.

And right now? We're about to make everyone a manager of AI agents — without teaching them any of those skills.
Matan reframed the entire AI conversation for me. He said if you deploy 10,000 agents into a 1,000-person company, you haven't automated tasks — you've created an 11,000-employee organization overnight. And most of us have never managed before.

The conversation went to some unexpected places:

→ Why his experience with dyslexia changed how he thinks about what AI is actually teaching us
 → The double standard we're applying to AI accuracy vs. human performance (this one stopped me cold)
 → What it means to supervise AI, not just observe it
 → Why accountability doesn't decrease with AI — it amplifies

But the thread that kept coming back was this: we're not just missing technical skills. We're missing the feedback culture required to manage effectively at scale. We're not teaching people how to direct, refine, and iterate — skills that creative fields have been developing for centuries.

If you're thinking about AI transformation or building hybrid teams, this conversation will reframe how you see the challenge. It certainly did for me.

Link in comments.

Chicago was an experiment. Minnesota is a pilot program. What comes next is deployment at scale.

I live in a suburban Minnesota area with a high immigrant population. I meet the same profile as Renee Good — a queer, formerly married-to-a-man white woman with a blended family. Federal agents with full immunity are operating blocks from my home.

And the silence from the content marketing community is deafening.

Here's what I keep thinking about: we've spent years learning how to organize information, build coherent narratives from fragments, and make complex data accessible. We do this for product launches and quarterly reports.

Those exact same skills are what's needed right now to document what's actually happening — to organize witness testimony, create timelines from scattered accounts, identify patterns across incidents, preserve evidence that might be scrubbed.

This isn't about becoming an activist. This isn't about being on the front lines. This is about recognizing that the work you already know how to do matters beyond marketing campaigns.

My latest Neural Nuggets is about using AI as a documentation tool when official narratives can't be trusted. It's practical, it's tactical, and it includes a menu of options based on your bandwidth and risk tolerance.

Because you don't need to quit your job or transform your identity. You just need to be willing to redirect skills you already have.

This week, in South Minneapolis, an autistic, disabled woman on her way to the doctor was pulled from her car by ICE agents and carried into their unm

Open article: Neural Nuggets #14 | When the official story can't be trusted: Using AI to document what's really happening by Alaura Weaver • 11 min read

Neural Nuggets #14 | When the official story can't be trusted: Using AI to document what's really happening

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