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 experiment is revealing just how enormous the potential is if we can get the infrastructure right.
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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 twitter.com/shl/status/127
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similar things went down at Valve, check out Varoufakis' writing on it web.archive.org/web/2015110721
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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


