You wrote three lives. You gave each one permission — and named what another part was afraid of. You designed a 4-week experiment. Now we keep going.
For attendees of Freelance Unlocked Berlin 2026 — and anyone the handout reached.
"I'm not broken. I'm a mosaic."
In four weeks, an email arrives. It asks one question: how did the experiment go? No funnel, no upsell. Just the question, when you've forgotten you signed up for it.
Not accountability. An invitation. Someone genuinely looking forward to hearing what you tried is a stronger pull than anyone holding you to it. This is that, by email.
Everything from the session. Take what's useful, leave the rest.
"The thing you'll keep."
Three lives × five years from now, with the 4-week experiment template on the back. Print double-sided.
"If the room is gone but the questions aren't."
Five minutes. Me walking through the exercise again, slower, so you can run it on your own. For yourself. Or with one other person.
"The visuals from the talk."
The 13-slide deck from Freelance Unlocked Berlin 2026. Click through or save as PDF.
Five years from now: the safe one (A), the no-one's-watching one (B), the reinvented one (C). Permission to be boring, to be weird, to start over. Write all three.
Boredom · shame · being seen · not being seen · running out of money · disappointing them · your own ambition · having to choose. Every part gets a vote. And, above all, a veto. Name it. Then give it permission anyway.
Small · Specific · With evidence · Shared with someone glad to hear. Not a decision, just a small experiment that tells you something real.
None of the possible lives is a destination. They're materials.
Two doors. One is engineering-shaped. One is therapy-shaped. Both are mine.
Engineering-flavored 1:1 work for technical operators. Career shifts, AI displacement, "what should I actually be building."
For people who came up to me in the hallway with one stuck decision.
See Wetware →The softer version of this same toolkit. Internal Family Systems-based.
Same "parts" / "committee" / "permission" frame... with formal training behind it.
Visit IFS Collective →Find me on LinkedIn in five weeks. I mean it.
Alessandro Pedori © 2026 · Wetwarecraft & Engineering
Italy. Remote-first.