Multi-Hyphenate

Portfolio careers are on the rise and to me this makes perfect sense, because they’re more reflective of the way humans are built. We’re multi-dimensional, multi-faceted, multi-passionate beings, so surely our work should be multi-dimensional, multi-faceted and speak to our multiple passions.

Many of us are realising that we don’t want “traditional... See more

Daniel Pink, in his book Free Agent Nation, noted that America's career landscape was changing and would soon be dominated by freelancers or portfolio careerists. Bill Bridges' book Jobshift argued along similar lines, Marci Alboher's One Person/Multiple Careers highlighted this growing trend among normal people in the United States and more recent

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rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it

These are just a few examples and I love that my work is amorphous and ever changing. It ebbs and flows as my life moves, priorities change, interests evolve, and desires and hopes and dreams become clear.

That’s the thing about portfolio careers. They help you construct a home for yourself so you stop looking for one in other places.

In this context, knowledge and judgement and taste are valuable. We trust curators because we believe that they spent time and effort in developing their expertise. This belief seeped from the art world into the aspirational economy, with the new breed of aspirants looking to share their taste and turn their social and cultural capital into the eco... See more

I feel we're all slowly coalescing towards some kind of increasingly complex state of memetic symbiosis. That we're in the process of forming a thriving web of sensemakers, meta-theorists and systems poets who are all increasingly connected to communities of like minds in our bioregions and simultaneously attuned to a global network of shared insig... See more

Metatribe members tend to be multi-hyphenate: artist-scientist; dancer-entrepreneur; programmer-monk. Their work often synthesizes multiple disciplines at once.