Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
As anything scales too effectively – from restaurants and ad agencies to social networks and search engines – the market opens for more non-scalable alternatives. Once Starbucks opens on every block, we crave the artisanal coffee shop. There's the identity piece of it, where we want some degree of distinctiveness. But there's a practical side too: ... See more
Notes on scale + quality
Participation in gig economy platforms had been falling since June 2014,
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
Workers in the gig economy were disproportionately poor.
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
Workaholism
Jason Fried • Rework
More than half of the people who started working in the gig economy quit within a year.3
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
The most important question for me is, "How do I want to spend my days?" And the answer is: I want to spend my time thinking, creating, and ideating with a small group of people to build a beautiful, creative, values-aligned business. I am not interested in 14-hour work days, back-to-back meetings that deplete my energy, can’t catch a breath to-do ... See more
Sari Azout • Sari Azout on Building Emotional Capital
