18 Trends That Will Shape Our Careers in 2022

Phelps: Take DAOs. By fractionalizing core functions (treasury management, onboarding, governance, etc.), DAOs allow workers to fractionalize their time across many organizations. Meanwhile, a given task that a worker performs for a single DAO tends to be composable– meaning it can be applied to many other DAOs.

Many of our most interesting and impactful projects will be multiplayer. We'll work together to create art, make games, tell compelling stories, and build new technology. Many of these initiatives will be fundamentally "headless," or lacking a singular leader. Instead, emergent groups will arise to tackle different problems and earn more responsibi... See more

Critchlow: The future of knowledge work is increasingly going to rely on tacit knowledge. Whether it’s knowing how to navigate the organization or how to build a great marketing campaign – this is the knowledge that will determine career success. It turns out that the most effective way to acquire tacit knowledge is not through “professional develo... See more

Sari Azout: As the boundaries between life and work become more porous and businesses transform into webs of interrelationships between people, we are seeing old social technologies (like co-ops) being paired with modern technologies (like tokens) to align the incentives of collaborators in new, digitally native ways. For many people, the idea of a... See more

Mercedes Bent: The greatest income arbitrage exists when an emerging new form of income develops and few have the skills and platform knowledge to transact. To keep up with the increasingly fast rate of change, people will need to learn new skills faster than ever.

Kai Han: community-based hiring: These communities are increasingly becoming conduits for opportunity. Members are using them to find new jobs, contract work, and even co-founders. As more tools get built to support these behaviors, online communities will become a critical element of career progression and talent sourcing.

Fadeke: These creator side hustles often transform into full-time occupations. For example, Alexis Gay worked at Patreon while creating humorous videos about the tech industry. Now she’s a full-time comedy creator and podcast personality. Mario Gabriele started his newsletter, The Generalist while working at a VC firm. After seeing significant grow... See more