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Mar 23
1/ I spent months studying 30,000 years of labor history.
Here's the conclusion that surprised me most:
We were wrong about everything.
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Mar 23
4/ The internet lowered the costs.
AI finished the job.
The detour is ending.
5/ We're not entering some radical new future.
We're returning to the main road.
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Mar 23
The destination was always independence.
We're just finally back on track.
→ Read the full 5-chapter post: medium.com/@raphaellondner/u…
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Mar 21
1/ Most people picture the future of work wrong.
They imagine bigger offices. Smarter software. Fancier Zoom backgrounds.
Here's what it actually looks like:
2/ The future of work isn't a cubicle.
It's a campfire.
Small, warm, intentional.
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Mar 21
3/ A few people doing work that matters.
No commute. No HR email. No Sunday dread.
Directly connected to the output. Just like the original.
4/ This isn't utopian thinking.
It's historical pattern recognition.
We did this for 30,000 years before the factory arrived.
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Mar 21
5/ The factory was the detour.
The campfire was always the destination.
→ The full arc: medium.com/@raphaellondner/u…
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Mar 19
The corporate safety net is dissolving. Here are 7 moves to make before it's fully gone:
(From someone who studied years of labor history to figure this out)
1/ Audit your bundle.
What tasks in your job could AI handle today?
What's left is your sovereign value. Protect it.
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Mar 19
6/ Study how companies are fissuring.
Every function they outsource = a new freelance market opening up.
Follow the unbundling. That's where the opportunities are.
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Mar 19
7/ Recognize the trade-off you're accepting.
Independence means high-stakes freedom over low-stakes stability
Understanding the history makes the choice clearer
→ The full 5-part series: medium.com/@raphaellondner/u…
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Mar 17
1/ Most people think having a job is the natural state of human existence.
They're wrong.
Here's why the 9-to-5 is the weirdest thing humans have ever done:
2/ For 30,000 years, no one had a "job."
You hunted. You gathered. You survived.
You worked for yourself & your tribe.
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3/ The corporate employment model is ~150 years old.
That's roughly 2% of human history.
We've been running an experiment.
4/ The 9-to-5 isn't going away because of AI.
It's going away because it was always temporary.
You're not losing your job. You're returning to baseline.
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Mar 17
5/ Having a job is the weird thing.
The 9-to-5 is a 150-year experiment. It's ending.
Welcome back to the wild.
→ The full story: medium.com/@raphaellondner/u…
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Mar 15
1/ Every generation in history faced the same choice.
High-Stakes Freedom or Low-Stakes Stability.
For 150 years, the choice was made for us. Here's the full story:
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Mar 15
4/ AI era: the stability half of the deal is collapsing.
32% of independent workers have employer-provided health insurance.
Only 50% of permanent employees do — and that number is shrinking.
The trade-off changed. The choice didn't.
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Mar 15
5/ For the first time in 150 years, you have to choose again.
High-Stakes Freedom or Low-Stakes Stability.
What are you choosing?
→ The full historical framework: medium.com/@raphaellondner/u…
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