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I was surprised when Nacie Carson asked me to write the foreword for this book. After all, I'm a nerd; I don't consider myself an entrepreneur. Then she explained that she thought craigslist was a big part of something she called the “gig economy,” and it was helping people deal with the changes that have taken place in jobs and employment over the past several years. She even said she'd used the site herself as a source for clients when she was a freelancer.

That sounded familiar. After many years with IBM and then some with Charles Schwab, I was a computer systems freelancer myself when I started craigslist back in 1995. But I didn't ...

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