Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next
We live in a knowledge economy. What you know—and your ability to bring it to bear in any given circumstance—is what creates economic value for you. This was primarily driven by the advent of personal computers and the internet, starting in the 1970s and accelerating through today.
But what happens when that very skill—knowing and utilizing the righ... See more
But what happens when that very skill—knowing and utilizing the righ... See more
Dan Shipper • The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy
While we cannot predict precisely what workers of the future will be doing — what future wants and needs workers will be satisfying — we can predict some things about how they will be doing it. Work will take on an experimental, trial-and-error character, and will take place in an environment of rich feedback, self-correction, adaptation, ongoing i
... See moreVenkatesh Rao • Breaking Smart
Knowledge work, done in the Complicated domain, is no longer scarce—it’s getting more and more abundant. As global education standards, communication technology, and machines increase in supply, Archimedes’ lever is getting shorter and shorter. For macroeconomic reasons, jobs are getting more competitive and less profitable.
Taylor Pearson • The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
“The need to constantly adapt is the new reality for many workers” was the theme of the piece headlined “The Age of Adaptation.” The story had a term for what is now required of many workers—serial mastery.
Warren Berger • A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Knowledge work is slowly but surely getting rationalized. It is bifurcating between general knowledge work — the administrivia of responding to emails, organizing files, writing notes, reading texts, and producing documents — and specialized, creative knowledge work that involves solving new problems.