What if hard work felt easier?

Lack of autonomy is the most draining thing.

Not many have the luxury to do what they think makes sense. I've been running my own small business for years. It's lonely to not have coworkers but work is extremely enjoyable.

The author, too, had autonomy but doesn't seem to make a point of that.

The system that we've built is why people aren't enjoying their work. The bigger the organization, the less autonomy an individual has.

Markets are beautiful things when they work. They allow individuals to offer their services to the world in exactly the way they find best. Which feels good. And is great for a positive sum society.

The amount of people employed in small businesses or self employed is shrinking and has been for a while. The rules are too complex to start a business. In tech, there is no common protocol to speak. You are a surf of the platform you find yourself on. They extract the value.

To help people find meaning in their work, we must first force open protocols, interoperability, and regulations that are gradual by business size.

"It’s to help people find work that feels easy for them — not necessarily work they already know how to do, but work that feels obvious for them to get done by whatever means possible"

Having worked across the spectrum of big co. and startups this is much easier to do from a startup/small co. perspective. The larger the company gets the less likely this is going to be the case even for the ones that are more amenable to shifting folks around regularly. The Venn diagram of fulfilling work and the team that you're on gets further spread the larger the company you're on and will change rapidly on you.

This seems naive to me.

There are plenty of things I work hard on because I like them, but there are also lots of things I have to work hard on because they need to get done.

I have similar feelings about Ikigai, the overlap of what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for. Those things don't really overlap for me.

"What if I farmed everything out to an AI and felt like I accomplished something"

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