#54: Fiverr Acquires Stoke, 63% Say Hybrid (let people choose), AI advances Bring Promise and Concerns
As Change Makers rethink their relationship with work, flexibility and remote-first options look increasingly important.
☕️ Real time overheard at a coffee shop...
🧔♂️ 35 year old: Have no life then be a partner at Goldman at 42...no one wants that.
👨🦳 Retired gentleman: That thoughts always been there. The beauty is that this accelerated it for you young people.
🧔♂️ 35 year old: We want to still do our jobs and have a life outside of work. Maybe not your first 6 years, but at-least the last 30 years.
👨🦳 Retired gentleman: It makes sense for both. I mean don’t even think about setting up an office. Between the tax purposes, you got New York state, city taxes, and needing only half the real estate.
The future can be so bright for all of us :)
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Fiverr acquires Stoke Talent for $95m. Stoke lets companies manage their freelance teams. We’ll talk on the show how this is yet another signal for the need to integrate freelancers into your team.
63% of people in Jason Calcanis’s survey say they should embrace a hybrid return to the office where employees choose remote or in-office.
Are you feeling the return of office distractions? Must be why remote-first work is taking over the rich world according to the Economist…
Younger children can now start getting the COVID vaccine. That coupled with reducing rates of the Delta variant mean brighter days will hopefully be here for the millions struggling to juggle work, school, and home life. Our hope is that the flexibility and empowerment workers now feel remains, and that we don’t rubber band back to rigid work demands.
Google announced it is building a new AI architecture that is more adaptable, efficient, and builds on lessons learned in other domains. If they succeed (and make it available outside of their own commercial use), it would be a major step forward in real-world AI. The punchline: we think AI is powerful now, wait until it learns in days what used to take months or years, and even evolves like biological life…
🤔 Take A Think…
Matt and I always discuss how the office vs. remote topic can’t be binary. There are great things and 💩 about both, which Mark Stenberg does a good job discussing in his piece Why I’ve Returned To The Office.
“At this point in my life, I simply do not want to work alone all day in my house. I understand a lot of introverts apparently enjoy this, but I found it incredibly lonely. At the end of the work day, I would often see my girlfriend or friends, but the net sum of interactions still felt unfulfilling; I could not get over the feeling that I was spending the majority of my days in my bedroom.
I wanted to eat lunch with people, exchange pleasantries with the building staff and ask coworkers about their weekend plans. From a sociological perspective, these kinds of loose-tie relationships are actually incredibly important — they are how you get introduced to new ideas and jostled out of the worn-in grooves of your life. But they are also just, to me, what real life feels like.”
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