Back way in 2019 (light years for the crypto industry), the landscape looked a lot different. I was still around, but it was actually more of a goblin town than what we call goblin town today. Many 2017-era projects were either dead, pivoting, pivoting from a pivot or on their last legs! Around this time, I wrote one of my first articles. The seeds were sown in my mind from the birth of POS(Proof of Stake) being actually feasible and even implemented in a few early cases. The article was titled the future of work is not work. I wish I had tools like Mirror or Paragraph back then because after trying to search for the article, it appears I no longer have my Medium account, and it is lost forever. But the TLDR of the article was this:> Due to the new roles that would emerge around decentralized products, projects and protocols, we had to reimagine what the normal role of working looked like. It would no longer make sense for people to work for a company the way we did for the last 300 years(more so 100 years with industrialization). It would not happen all at once and would likely slowly infiltrate as this generation loses its foothold to the new digital natives with a different perspective. An example that was used was that a user would contribute to a handful of different communities in various ways(left up to interpretation, but one was as a validator) as an alternative to going to the same office in the same company every day.This may not seem too far of a stretch by today’s standards. However, this was before PoS, DAOs and NFTs were even in flavour with crypto natives, let alone front screen news. It was also before Covid, the last bull run and Micheal Saylor buying up all the Bitcoin! With this series, I want to dive in and put some ideas about where we might be headed, what roles might exist and other musings about the future of work. Keep in mind might is the operative word here; while I was able to transition into the exact role I mentioned in the paragraph above, it is currently a minute number of workers/entrepreneurs/jack of all trades:master of none types that are operating like this. Nothing is ever certain!
The Future of Work is not Work: spot saved for if I ever find the original article
Opportunity Capitalist
Onboarding
Prompt Engineer
Curator(needs a more describtive term)
