Ponzis, Peer Coaching, & Software is Eating Individuals

Here’s everything we published this week.

June 12, 2022

Knowledge Partner: McKinsey & Company

Innovation and the fear factor. Worries about failure, criticism, and career impact hold back many people from embracing innovation. Here’s how to create a culture that accounts for the human side of innovation. Check out a new article to explore the five ways to move past these barriers.

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Happy Sunday!

First thing’s first: some news! We’re excited to announce the addition of a new member to the Every writer collective.

Keep an eye out for Sofia’s debut post, coming to an inbox near you in 2042.

Now, on to this week’s posts!

Software is Eating the Individual

Evan Armstrong / Napkin Math

In 2011, Marc Andreessen published what has gone on to be a seminal essay of the Internet, “Software is Eating the World.” In it, he argued that software would consume every industry “from movies to agriculture to national defense.”

What Andreessen spent less time exploring is how the software-ification of everything would affect the humans that use that software. That’s what Evan is contemplating this week: what happens when everything in your life—from your work to your friendships to the selection of your significant other—is mediated by software?

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