I'm already looking forward to our next meeting. Sure, there's a lot we can worry about during the "Great Shift"––and rightfully so––but there's just as much opportunity when you're open to it. I feel lucky cause when you find people who keep you open, everything starts coming together.
Also, I clicked on the first hyperlink, and I was really hoping for "You gotta "fuck around to find out how [to cultivate serendipity]" line somewhere in here.
I think I have to be the one make that video now! Cheers man, excited to help out on your journey and looking forward to some long bike rides together ;)
I agree with the idea of a great reshuffle. I also share some of your enthusiasm about changing career paths throughout life.
But I’d also question a couple of your points.
"Power decentralizing away from institutions." Is that so? Or is it even more centralized but toward new institutions?
"Geography no longer matters as much as it did." Maybe, for some of us who are the privileged few. But what about the Sub-Saharan African trying to cross the Mediterranean or the Latino migrating to the north? Geography has had an indelible mark on their existence.
What do you think? If you’re still in Barcelona, we can grab a coffee one day and continue the conversation.
Thanks for the feedback Ramiro! I'm not speaking in binary terms, these are just undeniable trends since internet access has come into existence.
YouTube made it so that anyone can become a full time media company, in the past this was not possible, the big institutions had all the attention. Now it's more distributed and decentralized.
I agree that where you are born has an incredible mark on your existence, but people are now more mobile and connected through technology. Of course there will be outliers like Sub-Saharan Africa, but then again I've worked with plenty of video editors from Nigeria who never would have had the opportunities they have now a few decades ago.
We'll for sure catch up one day in Barcelona, I love having these conversations :)
That's what I would question. Yes, we can become a full-time media company. But we are just creating the content. Distribution used to be, well, distributed by thousands of smaller local companies that have now all disappeared.
It feels to me like it turned out that we are cheaper content-creation labor for the profit of a handful of content distributors (the IGs, TikToks, YouTubes of the world). The production of content feels independent, but it's actually heavily dependent on a very small number of companies that will distribute it using their proprietary algorithms.
Some people can take advantage of those opportunities and thrive. But I'd be cautious when describing it as real decentralization and freedom from geographical constraints—especially in a context of wealth concentration and a rise of nationalisms throughout the world.
I strongly agree with some of your points. But I also think we should be cautious in our optimism.
I'm already looking forward to our next meeting. Sure, there's a lot we can worry about during the "Great Shift"––and rightfully so––but there's just as much opportunity when you're open to it. I feel lucky cause when you find people who keep you open, everything starts coming together.
Also, I clicked on the first hyperlink, and I was really hoping for "You gotta "fuck around to find out how [to cultivate serendipity]" line somewhere in here.
I think I have to be the one make that video now! Cheers man, excited to help out on your journey and looking forward to some long bike rides together ;)
I agree with the idea of a great reshuffle. I also share some of your enthusiasm about changing career paths throughout life.
But I’d also question a couple of your points.
"Power decentralizing away from institutions." Is that so? Or is it even more centralized but toward new institutions?
"Geography no longer matters as much as it did." Maybe, for some of us who are the privileged few. But what about the Sub-Saharan African trying to cross the Mediterranean or the Latino migrating to the north? Geography has had an indelible mark on their existence.
What do you think? If you’re still in Barcelona, we can grab a coffee one day and continue the conversation.
Thanks for the feedback Ramiro! I'm not speaking in binary terms, these are just undeniable trends since internet access has come into existence.
YouTube made it so that anyone can become a full time media company, in the past this was not possible, the big institutions had all the attention. Now it's more distributed and decentralized.
I agree that where you are born has an incredible mark on your existence, but people are now more mobile and connected through technology. Of course there will be outliers like Sub-Saharan Africa, but then again I've worked with plenty of video editors from Nigeria who never would have had the opportunities they have now a few decades ago.
We'll for sure catch up one day in Barcelona, I love having these conversations :)
No problem, Brian.
That's what I would question. Yes, we can become a full-time media company. But we are just creating the content. Distribution used to be, well, distributed by thousands of smaller local companies that have now all disappeared.
It feels to me like it turned out that we are cheaper content-creation labor for the profit of a handful of content distributors (the IGs, TikToks, YouTubes of the world). The production of content feels independent, but it's actually heavily dependent on a very small number of companies that will distribute it using their proprietary algorithms.
Some people can take advantage of those opportunities and thrive. But I'd be cautious when describing it as real decentralization and freedom from geographical constraints—especially in a context of wealth concentration and a rise of nationalisms throughout the world.
I strongly agree with some of your points. But I also think we should be cautious in our optimism.
Haha the FAFO video was hilarious. Curious -- what was so interesting about Spain to you? Seems like it was calling you for a while before you moved.
@Amy Suto is relaunching her next book all about the world of work without the gatekeepers! I could see there being a great synergy here ;)