The side hustle to my side hustle is helping make the social side of side hustles more fun. So many people seem to think the collective noun for free agents is “market” as in, Hobbesian gig market with race to the bottom pricing dynamics and ugly ratings manipulation games.
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Just because free agents don’t free associate through shared employment in paycheck corps doesn’t mean they are lone wolves who either stay out if each other’s way or compete 1:1 in Hobbesian ways. Economic sociability is not limited to markets and corporatized entities.
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That said, infrastructure for doing anything other than engage in bidding wars on upwork is very limited. There’s no way to simply form a team to bid for an opportunity beyond trawling your general social network. There’s no way to talk about gigwork beyond vanilla social media.
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The “enterprise” is a stack of complex software with way deeper collaboration/workflow capabilities than social media. Free agents cobble together ersatz imitations of this stack from underpowered free tools. We need a gigtech software distinct from both consumer and enterprise.
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I wasn’t aware of these problems until recently because in 9 years as a free agent, I did *very* little collaborative work with other free agents. Just farmed out some subcontracts and used a few support people off and on. I used to rationalize this as “I just like working alone”
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Now that I’m actually consciously trying, I think what actually held me back is sheer lack of even the most basic infrastructure. Even just a few months in, the
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“The fortune in the combinatorial space of free agents” A group of n free agents has at least 2^n ways of creating value, not just n. And that’s an underestimate, since even the same team can collaborate in many different ways. Free agents radically unbundle the corporation.
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Apparently gumroad is doing the same but starting from the opposite end https://twitter.com/shl/status/1279115776440414208?s=21 … https://twitter.com/shl/status/1279115776440414208 …
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similar things went down at Valve, check out Varoufakis' writing on it https://web.archive.org/web/20151107211733/http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-do-we-need-corporations-for-and-how-does-valves-management-structure-fit-into-todays-corporate-world/ …
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wait WHAT Yanis Varoufakis was working at Valve pre being minister of Greece??????? And wrote on their market like political economy? What the fuckkkkkk
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heh you didn't know this? it was what made him famous first :D
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bro- WHAT!? my mind is utterly blown. so you're saying i could first do an analysis of the political economy of [future yak collective] and then become minister of portugal? lesss gooo
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We’re designing our internal yakcoin economy even as we speak
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