The Hacking UI Master Class is a series of live conversations and lectures with experts in design and development about emerging technology and new frontiers.

Our goal is to force you to step outside of your comfort zone and expand your knowledge in areas that most professionals don’t get to touch upon in their day-to-day work. The world is quickly changing around us, and we want to help you get a glimpse of the bigger picture.

The series is streamed on CrowdCast so that you can watch it from anywhere. It is also highly participatory. You can ask your questions directly to the expert and chat with us live throughout the broadcast.

Each month we will bring a new expert to lecture on a different topic. Register for the series to get notified of upcoming classes and watch the recordings of past classes.

My birthday present to myself: a 30-day commitment to writing, and the method to make sure I follow through

Today’s my birthday, and this year I’m giving myself a present. I’m giving myself the time to write. I’m going to prioritize it, block out the time in my schedule and actually take writing seriously. But that’s pretty vague. I’ve tried to do that before, and I failed miserably. So this time I’m going one step farther. I’m committing to publish a new article every day, for 30 days straight.

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The man who sold his last name and is now selling his future – Jason Zook

Jason started out by getting companies to pay him to wear their T-shirts for a living. He then sold his last name, twice, and wrote the world’s first ever fully-sponsored book. Now he is in the middle of what might be his craziest stunt yet. He’s quite literally selling his future, and he’s doing it so he can help creative professionals take action and make money doing what they love.

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The goat herding, algorithm cracking, autodidact Tal Perry (Citi, Smart Scribe)

Today’s guest is a very special person. Not your regular entrepreneur, and definitely not your standard, run-of-the-mill developer. Tal Perry is a good friend and a serial side project hacker. He’s actually one of the members of the first batch of the side project accelerator. He’s an entrepreneur who currently works at a large company, a developer, and a serious autodidact.

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Bryn Jackson (Spec.fm) on how he built a gigantic podcast network with over 5 million downloads

This is the first episode of the second season of the Hacking UI podcast, ‘Scaling a Side Project’. In this season we interview designers, developers, and creative entrepreneurs who built and scaled successful side projects that we admire. Today we are excited to have Bryn Jackson on the show. Bryn is the co-founder of Spec.fm, which features the popular podcasts Design Details, Developer Tea, and more.

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