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Andreessen Pulls a Bezos
Cheap money and power-law profits are killing venture funds and birthing venture firms.
Leaving Yourself at Home
As work becomes more personal and creative, demand for alternative personalities will increase.
The Winners of Remote Work
Ultimately, remote work ushers some freelancers and employees into a global arena that seems to promise a higher ceiling, but a lower floor as well.
Selling Your Soul to Yourself
Technology enables us to make a living by being ourselves. But it also incentivizes us to become whatever the market needs us to be.
Naked Capitalism
New ownership technologies can also help spread the risk of making bold bets.
Remote and Indispensable
The footsoldiers in the war for talent are about to take a pay cut.
The Office Leak Hypothesis
The real variants are the people we've become while working remotely.
Remote Losers
A bigger talent pool favors the lucky over the skilled.
Listed.
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.
