| Future of knowledge work [0]: 1. 5-hour work day, not pretending busy work for 8 or even 12 full hours (eg, 996 in China tech corps) Knowledge work, especially creative work, is just different from hard manual labor. More work hours won’t necessarily produce more value For some people / jobs, maybe 2-hour work day is enough. @tobi says it well [1]: "For creative work, you can't cheat. My believe is that there are 5 creative hours in everyone's day. All I ask of people at Shopify is that 4 of those are channeled into the company." 2. One or multiple part-time jobs For some part-time jobs, you work for money; for others, you work for fun/impact. See how @gumroad works [2]: No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees 3. Streaming income in real time, rather than bulk income once or twice per month You have a stream of small incomes 24/7. Some are passive incomes, while others are active incomes. You get paid directly from customers you serve, not from a proxy (eg HR in big corp). Anytime during the day, you know how much you’ve made so far --- [0] https://twitter.com/wenbinf/status/1472356359953809409 [1] https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1210242188870930433 [2] https://sahillavingia.com/work |
I’m currently at a top-tier tech company which pays very well but wastes an incredible amount of my time on unnecessary overhead. It would be amazing to get my work done in four hours a day and spend the rest of my time on fulfilling projects and relationships.