Part 2: Benefits You’ll Enjoy
The New Economy is full of benefits that weren’t possible or not offered by employers in the old economy.
How you design your lifestyle is limited only by your imagination and willingness to work to make it possible.
When you work for yourself in the New Economy, you can focus your business entirely on results instead of useless aspects like face time, working hours, corporate hierarchies and doing things because “that’s how it’s always been done.”
If you measure results and don’t worry about all the Old Economy drudgery, great things become possible. You really can live and work anywhere you want to, or work less, or do things you’re passionate about or create your own job security.
How you design your lifestyle is limited only by your imagination and willingness to work to make it possible.
Business and technology should make life better, not consume it. In the New Economy, you can leverage business and technology to live a better lifestyle.
Entrepreneurs and freelancers have long enjoyed benefits that weren’t available to cubicle dwellers. The difference in the New Economy is that there are some entirely new benefits, and others that will increase in scope and in the number of people who enjoy them.
It’s been a long time since there was a direct correlation with the number of hours you work and the success you enjoy. It’s an antiquated notion from the days of manual labour that has no bearing on the world today. When you’re building products or services, there’s a nonlinear connection between input and output. You can put in just a little and still get out a spectacular lot.
David Heinemeier Hansson, The lifestyle business bullshit
