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I hadn’t imagined there were so many different ways to be a free agent. And they aren’t organized in a hierarchy. It’s weirder.
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It begins at level -2, which is below traditional employees, and below algorithms too, β€œunder the API.” This means β€œmy boss is an app and i owe it money.”
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20-something in 1958: why it sure is swell that even tho i never finished high school my job at the factory allows me to own my own home and financially support my wife and our three children 20-something in 2018: my boss is an app and i owe it money
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Level 0 is where I’m at. β€œThe traditional employee class, increasingly becoming a bastion of very high-value specialists who can’t really create value as free agents.” (Yep, I’m a machine learning engineer.)
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Level 1 offers different trade-offs. Level 2 and beyond bring new freedoms. Ask yourself: Where are you now? Where could you go?
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writes, β€œIn the paycheck world, there used to be a saying: dress for the job you want, not the job you have. The analogous idea in the free agent world is: learn to exercise the freedoms you might acquire, not just the freedoms you have.”
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