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"Hustle" is a word used often on a sports field to basically mean "work hard." In business environments, this is what it almost always means - someone who goes

"Hustle" is a word used often on a sports field to basically mean "work hard." In business environments, this is what it almost always means - someone who goes out and works hard to get the job done.

jrs95 9y ago
It just so happens the work these people do often happens to be bullshitting. So a hustle in that context could just be bullshitting more aggressively.
gr3yh47 9y ago
Dont confuse 'Hustle' i.e. to run or work energetically with 'Hustler' i.e. slang term for one who swindles (oversimplified, but this is the definition used in the article) with regards to [0] You're using definition 1. the writer is referring to definition 4 although it does seem like the writer is ascribing uses of definition 3 instead to definition 4. [0] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hustle http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hustle
watwut 9y ago
I tested company app whole night and fixed most bugs, I am such a hustler. I tended to garden whole day, my hands and back hurt from all that hustling. Am I using it right since it simply means work hard?
dvdhnt 9y ago
Huh, having played sports for over a decade, I don't perceive "hustle" to mean "work hard". I understand it to mean "hurry up" or "move quickly from A to B". Usually, I hear "work hard" referred to with "grinder" and "doing your job". I think hustle is really doing whatever you can to get from A to B, and in the context of a startup, "hustlers" use their bullshit - whether that's pizazz and shiny things and empty or extreme promises - to move from objective to objective in pursuit of the goal. I don't think you're wrong, just a slightly different perspective.
notacoward 9y ago
IMX the usage isn't quite the same. In sports, hustle seems to mean extra effort to be in the right place at the right time - e.g. to seize an opportunity to make a shot, or challenge an attacker to block/prevent one. In business, right place and right time are part of it, but there's also an aspect of trying something novel or non-obvious. In some cases, that means pushing legal/ethical boundaries. That connotation, absent in the sports version, seems to be what the OP is objecting to. P.S. Also, what gr3yh47 said. That's a whole different meaning of "hustle" that's probably not meant by people who describe themselves that way but which often applies to them nonetheless.

"Hustle" is a word used often on a sports field to basically mean "work hard." In business environments, this is what it almost always means - someone who goes out and works hard to get the job done.

jrs95 9y ago

It just so happens the work these people do often happens to be bullshitting. So a hustle in that context could just be bullshitting more aggressively.

gr3yh47 9y ago

Dont confuse 'Hustle' i.e. to run or work energetically with 'Hustler' i.e. slang term for one who swindles (oversimplified, but this is the definition used in the article) with regards to [0] You're using definition 1. the writer is referring to definition 4 although it does seem like the writer is ascribing uses of definition 3 instead to definition 4. [0] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hustle http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hustle

watwut 9y ago

I tested company app whole night and fixed most bugs, I am such a hustler. I tended to garden whole day, my hands and back hurt from all that hustling. Am I using it right since it simply means work hard?

dvdhnt 9y ago

Huh, having played sports for over a decade, I don't perceive "hustle" to mean "work hard". I understand it to mean "hurry up" or "move quickly from A to B". Usually, I hear "work hard" referred to with "grinder" and "doing your job". I think hustle is really doing whatever you can to get from A to B, and in the context of a startup, "hustlers" use their bullshit - whether that's pizazz and shiny things and empty or extreme promises - to move from objective to objective in pursuit of the goal. I don't think you're wrong, just a slightly different perspective.

notacoward 9y ago

IMX the usage isn't quite the same. In sports, hustle seems to mean extra effort to be in the right place at the right time - e.g. to seize an opportunity to make a shot, or challenge an attacker to block/prevent one. In business, right place and right time are part of it, but there's also an aspect of trying something novel or non-obvious. In some cases, that means pushing legal/ethical boundaries. That connotation, absent in the sports version, seems to be what the OP is objecting to. P.S. Also, what gr3yh47 said. That's a whole different meaning of "hustle" that's probably not meant by people who describe themselves that way but which often applies to them nonetheless.