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Jump Start *Your* Year of Hustle – Weekend Workshop

I’ve been thinking a lot about my Year of Hustle (thus the posts, and the tweets). I’ve been making notes of stories, and thoughts, and lessons, and results to share for months.

Last week I had the crazy idea to do a live, 3-hour workshop for those who want to make their own Year of Hustle, rather than making them wait while I trickle it out at a blog-post rate over the next 6 months.

Are you thinking, or are you farting?

Thinking is supposed to be a question mark. But most people treat it like a period.

Headology vs First Sight, Second Thoughts

Terry Pratchett's always written about witches and, by extension, the essence of humanity.

How we tap the Twitter Zeitgeist for SXSW, Internet Week & More

In March, we built the ground-breaking SXSW Zeitgeist for Pepsico. It's no longer running—SXSW is over, natch—but there are some videos, in case you didn't see it.

Pepsi wanted to "do something cool around Twitter/SXSW" and we delivered the concept, design and execution. (And boots-on-the-ground troubleshooting.)

Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business

The whole saga is worth reading, but just to let you know: here's the latest.

Wanting to offer an alternative to PayPal, we set up a Google Checkout account for people to buy our ebook.

The last email we received about our Google Checkout account was "Helpful tips regarding your first Google Checkout orders" on February 9th.

But a few days ago, I logged in, and this is what greeted me:

Jelly! Talk Excerpt 1: My Crusade, Twistori, & Elemental Design

This is the first in a series of 2 or 3 posts for the transcript of my Jelly! talk from SXSW. Jelly! talks are put on by Yahoo! and Jelly!, the casual coworking movement. This one was held in the lovely Austin coworking space of Conjunctured. Here's a link to the video.

My name is Amy, I would say that I have a mission.

Your Questions: When do you do UI & Ajaxify?

Have I not answered your question yet? Don't worry, I plan to get to all of them. I suck at email, but I'm learning the discipline to manage all this stuff. Please bear with!

Today's question is one I get a lot, actually. It's not quite the same as the UI workflow question I answered earlier this week, so I wanted to tackle it separately.

I suspect that Chris Hartjes is humoring me, but he writes in:

Your Questions: The right way to program?

Catherine Musinsky wrote in with 3 questions, only one of which I'm going to answer publicly.

Catherine, thank you so much for this question. You've given me a fabulous gift: the justification to rant!

She writes:

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