In a world powered by human concentration, giving every employee the power to “grab” every other employee’s attention is the ultimate form of featherbedding. It keeps everyone distracted just enough to make sure we’re not innovating too quickly.
You don’t need a vacation — you need 6 months of ambitious underemployment, of relaxed discipline, of productive exploration, of intentional meandering, … of hard leisure.
For a long time I thought it was odd that there wasn't some sort of "stock market" for creators. That there should be some way to choose the next up and coming creators, and somehow fund their life in the process. After all, that's precisely how the standard stock market works. You bet on the companies you think will do well, and in the process you... See more
These EdTech companies have also innovated on content supply by morphing the idea of an instructor, providing tools and platforms that allow both esteemed professors at an Ivy League or an otherwise unknown white-collar worker to reach millions of students, and providing them attractive economic incentives to do so.