Bring on the Artisans

Somebody once said that you don't know there's been a revolution till someone's won. Everything else is just noise and chaos.

I guess that puts us on the road to a revolution. What I notice most about the chaos is that it's largely our refusal to embrace what's happening, perhaps because it's just so inconvenient.

The organisations we've built and the qualifications we've gathered in order to serve them are becoming rapidly ineffective as we move from the complicated of leveraging knowledge to the complex of discovering knowledge. The (largely fictional) guarantees that we felt to be there are evaporating. For many people, from recent graduates with early stage debt, to managers who've been in the same role for years servicing mortgages and school debt, the security that once existed in their respective investment and loyalty is rapidly disappearing. The instability we feel was coming anyway, just more slowly. The impact of Covid-19 has just accelerated it.

I see the biggest difference t…