When I tutor, I'm not trying to get you through tonight's homework. I'm trying to get you to the moment where a concept stops being a rule you memorized and starts being something you actually understand. That moment is the whole job — everything else is just helping you reach it.
“Understand why it works, and the how takes care of itself.”
Building software is the same feeling from the other side. A small business owner doesn't want to hear about frameworks — they want a website that brings in customers and that they aren't afraid to touch. So I do the technical part, then hand it all over: the domain, the accounts, the code. No lock-in, no monthly ransom, no calling me to change a phone number.
I work alone, on purpose. It means you talk to the person doing the work, prices are honest because there's no one to mark them up, and nothing gets lost between an account manager and a developer. It's slower to scale and I'm fine with that. I'd rather do a few things properly than many things at arm's length.