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In Praise of Ponzis
A new economic model is emerging. Here's why it makes sense.
Crossing the Bank
A single currency is a perfect solution for a low-information world. We no longer live in one.
Crypto Quentin and Non-Fungible Taylor
NFTs will not replace copyright law. They will make it redundant.
GitHub for X
The 2020s will do to knowledge work what the 2010s did to unskilled labor.
Crypto and the Conservation of Centralization
You can't decentralize the web. You can only kill old winners and pick new ones. Here's how.
Friday!
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Invisible Hierarchies
In the War for Talent, crypto is an unconventional weapon. We need to spend more time thinking about collateral damage.
Money and Beauty.
2008 turned "wealth" into a bad word, and undermined trust in financial and political institutions. The 2020s are offering an alternative approach.
Crypto Rorschach Test
Technology is nothing but an opportunity to change. The final outcome is (still) up to us.
Clones and Colonizers
The most precious resources of the 21st Century are human creativity and attention. The colonizers are coming to get yours. Here's how to save your soul.
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.
