Jobs of the Future

“Thanks to the invention of spreadsheets, we’re going to throw so many bookkeepers out of work!” “Actually, thanks to spreadsheets we’re going to see the growth of a new cohort of annoying people know as ‘fleece vest bros.’”

Every job will be automated until four remain: engineer, entrepreneur, investor, artist.

Prediction: virtual economist will be one of the most in-demand jobs of our time 👩‍💼🔥 As web3 grows and games become virtual economies where millions live and work, designing systems where users feel rewarded for time spent will be a critical skill Short thread 👇

Prediction: Incentive designer will be a new title in web3. I think of it as a product designer that can draw on principles from economics/tokenomics, psychology, and engineering. Incentives govern everything!

"Emerging web3-specific jobs" list from @patrickxrivera - DAO onboarding spcialist - Community scientist - Protocol poilitician - Token designer - NFT curator buckle up cowpokes 🤠

The meme economy will become real. - Meme creators will make NFTs - Timestamps give proof-of-first - Memegen partially goes on-chain - Memetic spread is more traceable - Memers become millionaires - Risky art becomes uncensorable & monetizable - Art moves outside regime control

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Been thinking a bit about what kind of new "employment" arrangements might exist in Web3. Here's one I've been thinking about: Attention Bonds.

Prediction: AI will cause the price of work that can happen in front of a computer to decrease much faster than the price of work that happens in the physical world. This is the opposite of what most people (including me) expected, and will have strange effects.

My prediction... Selling knowledge will be the biggest business trend in 2021. And it won’t be in tech circles. It will explode in "mainstream" professions like mental health, fitness, interior design, tennis coaches, etc. Here’s why I think that...