Ever feel like you're the last one to figure out the price thing? I was over here charging like it was 2019.

Paper charts are basically history books at this point. We run a real-time feed on the bridge that updates every few minutes. Had a close call with a shipping container that fell off a freighter last year. The thing showed up on screen twenty minutes before we'd have hit it. Changed course, no drama. Old gear just doesn't cut it anymore.

Yeah, I saw a blog post about this. The writer called it the "pay yourself last" method. Basically, the first thing you do when a client payment hits is move the tax portion to a separate account you never touch. It's not your money. Doing it right away means you can't accidentally spend it on something else, like a new laptop or a slow month. That's the only way it works for me.