1/ Work roles that are close in econ. function can be far apart in personalities that fit them. This has led to many tragic careers
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2/ I call this sensitive dependence on personality conditions. Eg. essay writing and journalism, math and coding, stats and other math...
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3/ Future of work conv from individual to macro suffers "adjacency fallacy": small changes in economic function require small adaptations
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4/ Root cause of fallacy is the allure of reusable experience. We wishfully hope domain expertise is portable within economic sector.
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5/ Wishful because domain knowledge is tied to skill-lens through which you learned it. Auto welder cannot easily transfer to auto finance.
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6/ One level deeper, we are prone to this because we want to minimize social disruption: in friends and status relations with them.
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7/ Keeping friends and moving to "nearby" career = 100x harder than rebuilding social nbhd around econ. distant, psych. close new role.
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8/ "Learning to learn" for work adaptation much easier than people think. What's hard is making new friends, new status after anomie phase
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9/ Biggest thing you can do to become more adaptable in making money is to decouple social and economic needs significantly.
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