Now that creators are becoming investors, creator job boards will soon be everywhere.
Here's why:
1) Every creator attracts a pool of like-minded people.
2) Job boards are low-cost, high-margin businesses.
3) As an investor, companies are always asking for hiring referrals.
Aspects of the recruiting industry will be disrupted by creators who have far-more targeted audiences than big companies like Indeed or Monster ever will. Somebody should build a white-label service for creator job boards, so creators can stay focused on audience building.
William Gibson once said: "The future is already here. it's just not evenly distributed yet." The job boards of the future look a lot like this initiative from @APompliano: a creator-focused, industry-specific marketplace.
Okay, it looks like @JobBoardFire is a plug-and-play solution. Here's what I learned: you can make a job board quickly, but nobody will post if there are no jobs. So this, then, is a supply-driven marketplace where you spark the fire by adding jobs manually.
With Jeff Bezos stepping down as CEO, here’s a thread of the best things I’ve learned from him.
1. Be willing to change your mind.
As Bezos famously said: "Anybody who doesn’t change their mind a lot is dramatically underestimating the complexity of the world we live in.”
2. There are two kinds of decisions.
One-way door decisions are irreversible, so make them slowly. Two-way door decisions are the opposite. Since you can go back on them, you should make them quickly.
3. Encourage good writing
Amazon’s built a writing-first culture where employees review six-page memos at the start of important meetings. Writing takes longer in the short-term but saves time in the long-term. The memos are structured like a dissertation defense.
The world is filled with talented people who can't be creative because they're just trying to make it.
But give them a little bit of cash so they can work on what they want for a year, and they'd creatively explode.
This story about Harper Lee is my favorite example.
I'm moved to tears every time I tell this story about Harper Lee.
Encouraging others and raising their aspirations is one of the most productive activities you can do. And who knows... you might just inspire the next great novel.
I know many talented people who've been able to take risks because some wealthy person said: "Work on something so ambitious that you can't sleep at night, and if you fail, you'll always have a job working for me."
Society needs more of this so people can take risks.
One of the fastest ways to improve both the intellectual world and the lives of creators is to create platforms that reward craftsmanship over volume.
Quality over quantity.
Today’s algorithms have such a now-bias that consistently publishing is the best way to be consistently seen.
And so, the entire Internet has a decency bias where current events dominate our attention.
But if we choose, we can design slower and more contemplative platforms.
The economic incentive to work like a craftsman is why I’m so excited about Cohort-Based Courses.
A course is a product. And as the founder of any great software product will tell you, great products are born from years of design, feedback, and iteration.
One of the best ways to improve your writing is to find a brilliant author who nobody knows about.
Read all their work, summarize it, build upon it, and you’ll have people saying “wow, I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
I’ve been reading Lewis Mumford who exemplifies these ideas perfectly.
He studied how technology transformed culture, with a focus on cities and machines. Though he was once influential, his ideas have been forgotten. And now, I’m going to translate them for the Internet age.
We should value originality, but not so much that we ignore the wisdom of those who came before us.
You do the world a great service when you synthesize the ideas of brilliant people who came before you. And when you write about their work, you find ways to build upon it too.