"Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn’t matter how good it is, or how bad—you did it. At the end of the week you’ll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I’ll be damned, it’s been a good year.”

—Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203

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In the West, a new informal economy is in the making - a peculiar byproduct of the digital revolution that has freelancers doing tasks rather than workers holding jobs.

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