[sidmitra]

You're not an out-lier actually. I think you're among the hundreds of freelancers who're just quietly doing their jobs. Some good, some not so good. Their rates tend to separate the chaff from the wheat pretty quickly, even if they're from a third world country(like myself).

This article is mainly to satisfy the authors whim, that what he's doing is what everyone else is doing, based on reading so many freelance/productivity blogs.

All that matter is how communicative he is, in clarifying things and what he delivers with each iteration. Even good freelancers, won't satisfy you sometimes, depending on how their workload is.