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Decentralizing work

I put a post up on my personal site about decentralizing work – if you didn’t have to work in a city, would you live in one?  Would you commute to work if you could work from home?  Why do we make these choices, and what happens if the reasons for them go away?

I’m still figuring out how to separate crazy personal ideas and professional ideas, especially when they blend together as here.  But given the recent traffic around this concept at A VC and the HBS blog I wanted to get my ideas up in a timely fashion.  Enjoy!

Click here to read my post on decentralizing work.

 

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    I guess if they go down I could export the comments. It really comes down to data portability - I would happily use Disqus everywhere if I could (a) move all my existing Wordpress comments to Disqus retroactively (as in my personal blog) and then move back from Disqus to Wordpress if I ever desired.

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    Companies such as Disqus should win my business through winning, not through holding on to my data.
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