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Power to the Person
People are becoming personal media corporations. Ex: Substack and Twitter enable people to make a living creating media and content
Kyle Tibbitts • Paradox Podcast on Apple Podcasts
The takeaway is this: individuals have more power than ever before, and they depend on companies for their survival less than ever before. But I don’t think the real freedom here is working alone; it’s the freedom to choose how, and with whom, to work.
Packy McCormick • The Cooperation Economy 🤝
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
how our economy might reorient itself around individual creators and the platforms upon which they build.