The title really under-sells the value of the content (and mine’s not any better), but even if you don’t agree with all of his conclusions, this article by Taylor Pearson does a great job of lining our how our current cultural changes are changing our economy.
Pearson traces how changes in culture have brought us to our current work paradigm, and then tries to apply those concepts to more recent disrupters.
Many internet pioneers in the 90’s believed that the internet would start to break up corporations by letting people communicate and organize over a vast, open network. This reality has sort-of played out: the “gig economy” and rise in freelancing are persistent, if not explosive, trends.
I’ve been following Taylor’s newsletter for a couple of years, and he frequently gives me something new to think about. I haven’t read his book, “The End of Jobs” yet, but I’ll be picking it up.
