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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10/ If all your friends etc. are people you know through work, you're screwed. Lots of weak links in your graph nbhd = you're adaptable.
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11/ This pits individuals against most orgs, which would like you to make friends, store social capital within them for more effectiveness
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12/ Orgs might even create cult-like culture of "having outside friends is betrayal." No good answer to this tension. Just have to manage.
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