4 Ways to Find the Work Only You Can Do

The less-recognized fact is that we can actually make more markets , and we can do so more easily now than ever. While the Industrial Revolution unleashed wealth creation, the internet has unleashed market creation in the form of the Long Tail.

One of the first industries affected by the Long Tail was music. Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, a compa... See more

Productivity, and profits, in an entrepreneurial economy are achieved by working on complex projects where progress isn’t made in a straight line, but in a seemingly rambling, meandering path, combining different concepts, skill sets and experiences from different domains.

The problem that Kevin Kelly and Scott Adams exemplify is: we have industrial notions of boundedness around skill sets. When you ask most people what they do, they fall into a fairly small number of buckets, most of which are classes at a University: I’m a marketer, I’m a designer, I’m a software engineer.

That’s typically how people describe their ... See more

The anti-productivity productivity day is a concept that I created based on an article from Marc Andreessen. Marc advocates not sticking to a schedule for a whole year. Pick whatever you feel like working on when you wake up, and go work on it.

While that’s difficult to do for a whole year, it’s quite easy to do for one day. I like to schedule at le... See more