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What's the easiest way to make a living today? By "easiest", I mean in terms of time and attention. The idea is to have lots of time to work on projects that you enjoy. That time has to be good "maker time", not time…

What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? To put that another way, in the current marketplace, what kinds of program are so worthy of optimization that it's economically sensible to have a human spend…

Here's my problem: I find switching tasks, on the scale of hours to days, to be agony. I am productive and feel good when I'm working on the same large project for, say, two weeks to two years, pretty much every day.…

Timothy "Four-Hour Work Week" Ferriss has a concept he calls a "cash-flow muse". That's a little business that generates some monthly cash without taking up too much of your time. I think the idea is that with a couple…

After my first month as a web entrepreneur, it has become painfully clear that I need to talk on the phone long-distance without cell-phone glitches. I live at the top of Potrero Hill in SF, and the cellphone reception…

Question for techies who started a web business with a subscription revenue model: How did you get your first customer? I'm asking because I'm a typical shy coder: cranking out truckloads of Python code is not a…