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You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn’t even necessarily relate with the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more regarding your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It’s about harmonizing the rhythms of your creative work with the rhythms of the rest of your life so that they amplify each other. It is a fundamentally new work ethic that is revolutionizing just how business has been done across the world.
Without hackers there would be no universal usage of e-mail, no Internet, no World Wide Web, but the hacker ethic has spread far beyond the world of computers. It is a mind-set, a philosophy, based on the values of play, passion, sharing, and creativity, that gets the potential to enhance every individual’s and company’s productivity and competitiveness. Now there is a larger need than ever for entrepreneurial versatility of the type that has made hackers the main innovators of our own day. Pekka Himanen shows how exactly we all can use this ongoing transformation in the manner we approach our working lives.
