“What’s your exit strategy?” Someone actually asked me this when I was starting my business. I didn’t have one. I’m not in it for the exit.

But the question went to something deeper: how are you going to make actual money? Because the problem is most solo business owners charge hourly. Or they need to hire to scale. OR they need to sell the business.

But there’s a better way: Value-Based Pricing. And Jonathan Stark is here today to tell us about it.

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Links

• Jonathan Stark
• Value Pricing Bootcamp
• Hourly Billing is Nuts

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I am no Luddite. I have three pieces of technology that monitor my health and wellness. I’ve come to rely on many devices.

That is why I am doing a digital detox.

This is Paper and Smoke. It’s a look at how real-world craft happens, through the lens of a technologist going through digital detox. In a society increasingly online (and outsourcing thinking to AI), Paper and Smoke celebrates the real, the tangible, and the analog.

Learn more at https://paperandsmoke.com

There comes a time in everyone’s life when they’ve consumed too much of something, and they find the very notion of consuming more sickening. This is the very basis for my yearly theme. 2025 was finally the year were I felt my overconsumption of technology was getting the best of me. So this year, my theme is digital detox.

Read the full article here: https://casabona.org/2026/01/2026-yearly-theme-digital-detox/

Show Notes

• My 2026 Yearly Theme
• My 2025 Yearly Theme
• Yearly Theme Archive
• My Interview with Amanda Goetz (It was 496, not 498!)
• My Favorites of 2025
• Paper & Smoke
• My AI Manifesto

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction
03:30 Grading The Year of Being Present
11:27 What I Learned from The Year of Being Present
14:57 My 2026 Yearly Theme
17:06 Goal 1: Using my Devices Less
22:55 Goal 2: Live in the Analog World
27:35 Wrapping Up

• (00:00) - Introduction
• (04:09) - Grading The Year of Being Present
• (12:06) - What I Learned from The Year of Being Present
• (15:36) - My 2026 Yearly Theme
• (17:45) - Goal 1: Using my Devices Less
• (23:34) - Goal 2: Live in the Analog World
• (28:14) - Wrapping Up

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