Robin Rendle — Stop calling yourself an IC
Since the beginning of time, the answer to “What do you do?” could be answered with one word.
Finance. Sales. Education.
But today, most jobs exist in liminal spaces: Kind of like this but also not quite that.
It may have been fair to think that any explanation longer than a one-word, universally understood, job title was just an attempt to l
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Having laid out at length the political problems with delegating the responsibility for coping with your own life to a political program, I must confess that my primary concern is personal, not political. I do not hate the knowledge workers at whom this type of essay is directed (I am one of them). I believe that large swathes of them are experienc... See more
Petersen writes • Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism"
Workers could accept the disruption and insecurity of permanent innovation. They could invest deeply in a war for new innovation as entrepreneurial selves. They could deliver new ideas and solutions at a fast pace for the company that cared more for profit than the worker’s protections. Workers could do all this because they believed that working f
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