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Remote Losers
A bigger talent pool favors the lucky over the skilled.
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Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts about last week’s piece about religion and distributed work. I am still working on a not-much-longer but a much-better-thought-out piece about the broader consequences of remote work. In the meantime, I wanted to share with you some personal bits. It’s
Remote Worship
A distributed culture can survive and thrive — even without Zoom.
The Talent Portfolio
Individual people are the next big asset class.
Betting the Firm
The company of the future will look like a venture fund, and talent will become a truly investable asset.
Invisible Talent Leaks and Outlier Employees
The cost of “office maximalism” is high. It’s also invisible.
Let's get physical
The built world holds the key to humanity’s biggest problems, especially when people can live and work anywhere.
The Crypto Future of Work
Things are done differently in the world of blockchains and decentralized finance. And they offer a vision of what all careers and corporations could look like one day.
The Epic Opportunity
The love life of a 1960s Czech doctor offers invaluable career advice for 2020.
The Long Chin
Your job must be performed in person? That will not save you from online competition. New data on the Long Tail offers some evidence.
Explicit Economics
In the future, we'll pay to work, get paid to consume, and gamble to keep our money safe.
No Floor, No Ceiling
The internet gives more people an opportunity to win. But it forces everyone to play the game.
Raiders of the lost Bank
Want to know the future of work? Don't ask a Wall Street CEO. Ask a protocol.
The Token Society
Cryptocurrencies will change the way we work, live, and love.
The TINA Economy
Young people are tired of paying for the illusion of safety. Is there no alternative?
Lovers and Leavers
Online performers are demolishing corrupt institutions and creating new opportunities and anxieties for everyone else.
Winner Takes Most
The internet matches us with those who'd pay most for our unique combination of skills and characteristics. It also exposes us to anxieties that were previously reserved only for pop stars.
The Ponzi Career
The future of work is a pyramid scheme, where every person sells his favorite person to the next person.
The Talent Equation
In-person interaction contributes to creativity. But is it enough to offset a shortage of talent?
NFTs and the Future of Work
Technology will make it possible to compensate each person according to their economic value. That’s pretty bad news for most people, and very good news for some.
Krugman is wrong about the internet. Again.
Remote work will do to the office what e-books did to stores. And that's bad news for most cities and offices.
Brute-force Creativity
Testing random ideas is a robot's way of being creative. And it can do so faster than any human.
The Office Prisoner's Dilemma
Once some companies embrace remote work, all companies are forced to embrace remote work.
Remote Bullying
The shift to remote work could kill office culture. For employees in some industries, that's pretty good news. First among these industries is finance. The culture at some of the world's largest money managers is notoriously harsh, particularly towards younger employees. Many companies have individual bullies and offenders. But in
The Future of Work is Unreal.
We don't want virtual meetings to feel more real. We want better masks.
The Data Disease (and Cure)
If data is the new oil, free countries can pull ahead by accumulating less of it.
Work, Cities, and Offices in a World of Infinite Choice
First, a couple of updates: Rethink with your ears: The audio version of Rethinking Real Estate is now available on Audible. Get it here. Rethink in Korean: Later this week, the Korean-language version of the book will be published — and will be available for purchase here. Last week, I spoke
Bezos and Offline Day One
Offline in the 2020s is like online in the 1990s.
WeWork and Poetry
This week's newsletter is made of video and voice. Text will resume next week. I am sending this from my new website, which you are very welcome to visit and share: DrorPoleg.com. WeWork in PublicWeWork is rumored to be looking at going public again. The WSJ reports that the
The 2020s: A Decade of Passionate Intensity
2020 is over and things are finally going back to normal. Or not. A recording of my keynote at CBRE Ireland's Market Outlook event.