The winners

Autonomous Autodidacts

TLDR; Self-reliance is key.

There’s a seismic shift happening in the culture of autonomy.

It used to be that autonomy was a gift. A gift for doing a good job. You earned your freedom. That is, freedom from the system; despite that system providing stability.

And while stability remains attractive, it’s place in the hierarchy is changing. Autonomy is becoming a responsibility.

It’s a responsibility to be creative, to work independently, to find new and better ways of doing things, to do your job even though nobody is watching.

Couple that with the gig economy, the creator economy, the hot venture market, the access to and rapid change of technology, and you start to see who will win in this new increasingly remote world.

It’s the Autonomous Autodidacts.

The people who are self-reliant self-starters, the people who teach themselves everything, the ones who set their own standards rather than looking to others for direction.

And it’s that same self-reliance, the feeding of your curiosity, that turns work into play.

Thrive under autonomy. Feed your curiosity. Make work fun.

See you Monday.