Isn't this the very literal definition of hustling, before the startup crowd decided they could rehabilitate the word to bring it in line with what football coaches mean when they say it?
I'm having a hard time parsing this comment. It is one of the two important definitions of hustling ("making money quickly with short cons"), the other being the thing football coaches are talking about. And the distinction is important, because the football coach definition is a virtue, and the Pincus definition isn't.
hustling/hustling hacking/hacking are examples of an energy vector dotted with a moral compass. When the dot product between the energy direction and the 'good' direction is positive you get improvement in "good" when its negative you get improvement in "bad" :-)
Quite synonymous with the word hacking as well. My feelings are equally synonymous. Especially with those who implore "growth hacking" techniques that otherwise are not very virtuous. Where do you draw the line?
