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Gradually, Then Suddenly
The notion of the “organization man”—a term popularized by William H. Whyte’s seminal 1956 book that describes the subsuming of individual agency in service of a large corporation—is giving way to the rise of “micro-entrepreneurs,” or free agents, creators, freelancers, and independent workers who utilize digital platforms to make a living by lever... See more
Li Jin • Unbundling Work from Employment
The market dominance of git as a version control tool, and of issues as a way to modularise work and manage tech-debt in public codebases have proved that decentralised work is also possible, at least in the software development space.
Rodrigo Mendoza Smith • Devs have eaten the world
there are decades of research on how knowledge workers in a decentralized network become “optimally distinct.”
Joey DeBruin • Communities Aren’t Buckets -- They’re Clouds
For a long time there were two basic ways to organize human work: a firm and a marketplace. A firm, such as a company, had definite boundaries, was permission based, and enabled people to increase their efficiency via collaboration more than if they worked outside the firm. A marketplace had more permeable borders, required no permission to partici
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