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  1. Pinned Tweet
    23 May 2019

    Say hello with a 1-tweet intro in a reply if you want to talk about art-of-gig ideas here. I’ll follow/boost those who want to be active in the conversation and follow each other here etc. Twitter seems like the best place to get a conversation going, at least initially.

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  2. Jan 30

    New subscriber post: Bootstrapping with Beefs (also my Clayton Christensen tribute post)

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  3. Jan 24

    New subscriber post: Ten Dimensions of Gigwork

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  4. Jan 21

    This account is briefly on hiatus except for newsletter links while I pull ahead of crazy backlog

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 17
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  6. Jan 17

    New free post: Basic Consultant Diagrams

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  7. Jan 16
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  8. Jan 9

    Yep. Prana makes some good men’s yoga pants that can pass for dress pants if people don’t look too closely, and work as pajamas too. They’re now my pajamas for overnight business trips. Sleep, workout, backup for jeans in case of spills or something.

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  9. Jan 9

    New subscriber post: The Importance of Being Surprisable

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  10. Jan 2

    Apologies for taking 2 weeks off on the newsletter instead of 1. A bad cold rendered me incapable of doing anything more complex than shitposting on my main account for the last 10 days. Back next week.

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  11. Jan 1
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  12. 23 Dec 2019

    There will be an annual roundup post later this week, but otherwise art of gig is taking the week off from twitter.

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  13. 20 Dec 2019

    Gig Economy Trivia #44: "The multiple jobholding rate—the percentage of workers who held more than one job at the same time—was 4.9 percent in 2017. That was below the rates recorded during the mid-1990s, which were above 6.0 percent." Source: BLS

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  14. 19 Dec 2019

    In lieu of trivia, today I bring you a search link for "California AB 5", a story worth following.

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  15. 19 Dec 2019

    This is the CA politician who was behind AB 5 responding to the fallout of the ill-conceived legislation

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  16. Retweeted
    18 Dec 2019

    Hello -type indie consultants, hustlers, hackers, and riffraff: ANNOUNCING THE 2019 ANNUAL REVIEW BLIND DATE Please sign up here if you want to be paired with a similar partner for the purpose of experimenting with your annual review process.

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  17. 18 Dec 2019

    New public post: End-of-Year Rituals for Gigsters

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  18. 18 Dec 2019

    | ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| | It's Art of Gig 2019-20 | |Review/Planning Season! | |____________| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || /   づ

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  19. 18 Dec 2019

    Gig Economy Trivia #43: Za were feudal-era Japanese guilds of merchants, performers, and entertainers, who banded together for protection against bandits starting in the 11th century.

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  20. 17 Dec 2019
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  21. 17 Dec 2019

    Gig Economy Trivia #42: The Ottoman word for guild, Ahi, was supposedly derived from a 13th century leather worker named Ahi Evran,

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