consulting life
Being outside their organization means you can get closer to outer realities relevant to their business, while also remaining closer to their inner realities than most outsiders. This closeness may be some form of literal closeness. Maybe you spend more of your time going to industry conferences than they do, or spend more time tracking academic
... See moreGrace Witherell • The Art of Gig, Volume 2: Superstructures
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are.na
From the point of view of normal middle-class people fully invested in the paycheck lifestyle, gigworkers appear to unreasonably and perversely reject perfectly fine standardized consumption-based life scripts, scripts that have worked for a century for billions of people. We have weird lives with lots of non-default aspects. We live in unexpected
... See moreGrace Witherell • The Art of Gig, Volume 2: Superstructures
You don’t get there by acculturating. Don’t become a well-rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a puffer fish.’ (Sterling, 1991)
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