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    Side hustle

    Chris Guillebeau · 2017

    A guide to launching a profitable entrepreneurial venture in less than a month shares practical exercises and inspiring stories about how to plan, launch, and refine a side business with minimal revenue and without having to quit a full-time job. "For some people, the thought of quitting their day job to strike out on their own as an entrepreneur is exhilarating. For many others, it's terrifying. After all, a stable job that delivers a regular paycheck is a blessing. And not everyone has the means--or the desire--to take on the risks and responsibilities of working for themselves. But what if we could quickly and easily create an additional stream of income without giving up the security of a full-time job? Enter the side hustle. Chris Guillebeau is no stranger to this world, having launched more than a dozen side hustles over his career. Here he offers a step-by-step guide that takes you from idea to income in just 27 days. Designed for the busy and impatient, this detailed road map will show you how to select, launch, refine, and make money from your side hustle in under a month.

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    What Hacker News says

    1. FahadUddin92Dec 2018
      I read 50 books this year. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/50-books-i-read-year-fahad-ud...

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      Talent is Overrated

      Originals

      Measure What Matters

      Crossing the Chasm

      Mindset

      The Startup Of You

      Remote - Office not Required

      So Good They Can't Ignore You

      The 8 Traits Successful People

      The Box

      The Defining Decade - Why Your Twenties Matter - Meg Jay

      The Power of Habit

      Cracking the Coding Interview

      The Google Resume

      Brain Rules

      Automatic Millionaire

      Rich Dad Poor Dad

      Bootstrappers Bible

      Startup Nation

      The Lean Startup

      7 Habits of Highly Effective People

      Ideavirus

      Traction - Gabriel Weinberg

      The Hard Thing About Hard Things

      The $100 Startup

      The Customer Funded Business

      Alibaba - The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark

      Don't Make Me Think - A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability

      Hooked

      Shoe Dog

      Side Hustle

      Start With Why

      The Phoenix Project

      Wiley The Customer Funded Business

      13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do

      The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

      The Pragmatic Programmer

      Outliers

      Delivering Happiness

      The Four Hour Work Week

      Good to Great

      Sacred Games

      Option B

      Entrepreneuring Pakistan

      Give and Take

      Your Money or Your Life

      Zero to One - Notes on Startups

      Pour Your Heart Into It

      Fourth Industrial Revolution

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    2. PostPostDec 2018
      Sorry for the wall of text.

      1. Bourne (The language and world of this novel are extraordinary - everything is falling apart yet brimming with life. Strangely moving)

      2. The Design of Everyday things (Essential for anyone in UI/UX)

      3. All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries (Highly engaging, entertaining sci-fi novella series, from an author that can write a very decent robot protagonist)

      4. The Power (Interesting story with sci-fi elements on the dynamics of power, sex, and gender roles. I didn't care for the book, but the first 3/4 of the book are amazing)

      5. Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days

      6. 7 brief Lessons on Physics

      7. The Last Lecture (The energy and positivity coming from a man knowing he's about to die is infectious. Great read)

      8. A wizard of Earthsea (Move over Harry Potter, this is the essential children's story about wizards)

      9. Exploring diabetes with owls (Funny, irreverent)

      10. Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children (Made an effort to read more YA this year - this was the best in this series, but I still hated it. There's a host of better YA series out there.)

      11. A Wizard of Earthsea: The Tombs of Atuan (See 8.)

      12. The Girl in the Dark (Interesting book about a skin condition I had never heard of, and the trials of living with a very rare condition)

      13. The Phantom Tollbooth (Clever children's book)

      14. Black hole blues and songs from outer space (Informative book about the study of space, the political and economic forces standing in the way of science, and the incredible individuals working in this field)

      15. Welcome to Night Vale (Hugely entertaining, clever and weird)

      16. You need a budget (Basic economics book explaining how to budget in a way that lets you do more with your money)

      17. To fight Against This Age (Incredibly pretentious, Ivory Tower philosophizing)

      18. Infinity Gauntlet (Half the Universe dying because Thanos wanted to sleep with Lady Death will never not be ridiculous)

      19. The Right and Wrong Stuff (Great read explaining how to anticipate and avoid career pitfalls)

      20. Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children: Hollow City (pretty shitty)

      21. The Farthest Shore (Ursula K. Le Guin was the biggest loss this year)

      22. Miss peregrine's home for Peculiar Children: Library of Souls (I hate this book and all its characters)

      23. Every Good Endevour (Religious book about a Christian worldview and the value of labor - not a bad read)

      24. When to Rob a Bank and 131 warped suggestions… (interesting, funny, from the writers of Freakonomics)

      25. Weapons of Math Destruction (Probably the most useful book on this list, if you're reading this on "hackernews")

      26. Holes (Perfect summer paperback read)

      27. Silver Screen Sirens (Essential for film geeks)

      28. A full life: reflections at 90 (I gained a lot of respect for Jimmy Carter: he lived an incredible life and does great things)

      29. Call Me by your name (Very good romance novel to send to your bigoted relatives at Christmas)

      30. Hyperbole and a half (Incredibly entertaining, very distinctive art style)

      31. The Murderbot diaries: Artificial Condition (See 3.)

      32. His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Best children's book, fight me)

      33. Less (Exceptionally well-written)

      34. Resilience (Great book, especially for those that have gone through extremely difficult circumstances)

      35. The Strange Bird (Dark, bleak, full of life, see 1.)

      36. The Murderbot diaries: Rogue Protocol (See 3.)

      37. His Dark Materials: The subtle knife (See 32.)

      38. Tap Dancing to Work (Very dry, some stories/articles are fantastic, others very, very boring for people that do not care about finance)

      39. So Good They Can't Ignore You (Pretty good)

      40. His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass (Amazing YA, see 32.)

      41. Uncontainable (Inspirational book about conscious capitalism)

      42. The Emperor of All Maladies (Pretty much everything you'll ever want to know about Cancer, written in a very engaging way)

      43. Blind Spot

      44. Shoe dog (Great story, see madmax108's comment, totally agree)

      45. The Faithful Spy (Beautiful artwork describing a Christian pastor's fight against fascism during WW2)

      46. Zero to One

      47. You'll grow out of it

      48. The Happiness advantage (Really fantastic book about the value of positive psychology)

      49. Dreams from my father (Enlightening look into Obama's early days)

      50. Ayoade on Ayoade (Entertaining, extremely scatter-brained, not as funny as his interviews or tv programs)

      51. The Diabolic (badly written YA Sci-Fi)

      52. The Physics of Everyday Things (surprisingly informative, recommended for non science-people interested in the way things work)

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