Take time to play with the dog...

As Dan Pink observed in "To sell is human", we are all selling something. Thomas Piketty noted in "Capital" that people with capital make better returns than those selling their labour, and that the advantage is exponential. It's the 'Matthew effect", and in today's world, a fact of life.

So how might the vast majority of us - the 99% without substantial capital, position ourselves in that world when efficiency dictates that we create systems and algorithms that minimise and simplify labour input?

I suggest we all have far more capital than we realise; it's just that it is not of the "keep it in Monaco" variety. Instead, it is intangible, vital and underutilised.

John Kuzava, in a post yesterday, wrote beautifully about it when he said, metaphorically, that we walk the dog to work and leave it sat at the door as we go into the workplace. The "dog" is that vast part of ourselves that sees things the narrow definition of our work doesn't think it needs, that considers thoughts unacceptable…