{"id":3924,"date":"2016-04-07T18:09:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T18:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2016\/04\/07\/mls-classics-mikerugnetta-ilovecharts-im\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T04:56:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T04:56:44","slug":"mls-classics-mikerugnetta-ilovecharts-im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2016\/04\/07\/mls-classics-mikerugnetta-ilovecharts-im\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3924 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2016\/04\/07\/mls-classics-mikerugnetta-ilovecharts-im\/attachment\/3925\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o586nyQa7R1qa0uujo1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o586nyQa7R1qa0uujo1_1280-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o586nyQa7R1qa0uujo1_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2016\/04\/07\/mls-classics-mikerugnetta-ilovecharts-im\/attachment\/3926\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o586nyQa7R1qa0uujo2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o586nyQa7R1qa0uujo2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o586nyQa7R1qa0uujo2_1280-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o586nyQa7R1qa0uujo2_1280-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o586nyQa7R1qa0uujo2_1280-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o586nyQa7R1qa0uujo2_1280-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o586nyQa7R1qa0uujo2_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mls-classics.tumblr.com\/post\/142414059390\">mls-classics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mikerugnetta.tumblr.com\/post\/142413501125\">mikerugnetta<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ilovecharts.tumblr.com\/post\/142361144366\">ilovecharts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>I\u2019m pleased to announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runningpress.com\/book\/paperback\/the-hustle-economy\/9780762460199\">The Hustle Economy<\/a> is out now and available wherever books are sold!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The absurdly prolific <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicahagy.info\/\">Jessica Hagy<\/a>\u00a0(of the blog\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thisisindexed.com\/\">Indexed<\/a>) and I rounded up a bunch of talented creatives and asked them to share their best wisdom on surviving the gig economy. I edited their words and Jessica illustrated with her signature pithy charts. Now, the book exists!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a particular thrill to help so many people I admire so much share their insights, and I hope whoever picks up a copy finds something in there that helps them. It remains a challenging economy and the best way I\u2019ve found to navigate that has been asking people like these for advice as often as they\u2019ll let me.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of contributors, in order of appearance:<\/p>\n<p><b>Nick Douglas<\/b> \u2014 <i>comedy writer<br \/><\/i><b>Jason Oberholtzer <\/b>\u2014 <i>editor, producer, consultant and most importantly, me<br \/><\/i><b>Ben Grelle (The Frogman)<\/b> \u2014 <i>internet comedian, writer, photographer and graphic artist<br \/><\/i><b>Adrian Sanders<\/b> \u2014 <i>cofounder of Beacon<br \/><\/i><b>Farah Khalid<\/b> \u2014 <i>film editor<br \/><\/i><b>Mike Rugnetta<\/b> \u2014 <i>producer, performer<br \/><\/i><b>Emma Koenig<\/b> \u2014 <i>television writer and humorist<br \/><\/i><b>Asha Dornfest<\/b> \u2014<i> founder of Parent Hacks<br \/><\/i><b>Kelsey Hanson<\/b> \u2014 <i>founder of Vocal Design<br \/><\/i><b>M\u00f3nica Guzman<\/b> \u2014<i> columnist and Neiman Fellow<br \/><\/i><b>Thomas Leveritt<\/b> \u2014 <i>director, author and painter<br \/><\/i><b>Casey Bowers<\/b> \u2014 <i>writer<br \/><\/i><b>Josephine Decker <\/b>\u2014 <i>director, film editor and performance artists<br \/><\/i><b>Donna Salgado<\/b> \u2014 <i>dance artist<br \/><\/i><b>Alex Pearlman<\/b> \u2014 <i>recovering entrepreneur and digital news girl<br \/><\/i><b>Dante Shepherd<\/b> \u2014 <i>professor and web comic<br \/><\/i><b>Brad O\u2019Farrell<\/b> \u2014 <i>game maker<br \/><\/i><b>Jess Kimball Leslie<\/b> \u2014 <i>trendspotter<br \/><\/i><b>Meredith Haggerty<\/b> \u2014 <i>writer, editor, the hero we deserve<br \/><\/i><b>Alex Larsen (aka Kid Twist)<\/b> \u2014 <i>battle rapper and game designer<br \/><\/i><b>Nancy Zastudil<\/b> \u2014<i>gallerist, curator and arts writer<br \/><\/i><b>Lee LeFever<\/b> \u2014<i> cofounder and creative director of Common Craft<br \/><\/i><b>Jess Wysaski <\/b>\u2014 <i>blogger and humorist<br \/><\/i><b>Jessica Hagy <\/b>\u2014 <i>artist and writer<br \/><\/i><b>Zach Weinersmith<\/b> \u2014 <i>web comic\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Thank you again to all these wonderful people and to all of you who follow this blog for having put me in the position to be doing pretty much anything I do, including put out books every now and then. It\u2019s a dream.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Friends and pals and acquaintances: I am in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hustle-Economy-Transforming-Creativity-Career\/dp\/0762460199\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1460050401&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=hustle+economy\">this book<\/a>. I wrote a short thing about the difficulties of thinking that because you are following your passions the universe owes you something. Unfortunately, it does not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But I promise the upshot of my piece is more uplifting than all that. And also that the rest of the very talented people in the book have written amazing pieces on their experience as Creative Professionals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel like the venn diagram on the cover speaks to you, <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"https:\/\/tmblr.co\/mFRPOO1N6Nu-b6ZLJRJtyKw\">@with-amore-infinito<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>yes. yes it does.<\/p>\n<p>I should investigate this book&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mls-classics: mikerugnetta: ilovecharts: I\u2019m pleased to announce that The Hustle Economy is out now and available wherever books are sold! The absurdly prolific Jessica Hagy\u00a0(of the blog\u00a0Indexed) and I rounded up a bunch of talented creatives and asked them to share their best wisdom on surviving the gig economy. I edited their words and Jessica &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2016\/04\/07\/mls-classics-mikerugnetta-ilovecharts-im\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2413,65,957,939],"class_list":["post-3924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hu-hu-hu-hustle","tag-long-post","tag-meetinglife","tag-writerlife","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3927,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions\/3927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}