It's been a rough time for experts working in institutions. But professional precarity may open new paths for personal agency -- and improve public knowledge along the way.
Love how you framed institutional precarity as an oppertunity rather than just a loss - that perspective shift matters. The attention economy burning itself out with AI slop is kinda poetic honestly, and platforms finally rewarding depth over virality feels like the correction we needed. What really stuck with me is how this opens doors for experts serving marginalized communities to bypass legacy systems that ignored them. Building direct connections and closing information gaps could be transformational if enough people lean into it. The timing is intresting too since trust in institutions is tanking right when individual experts have the tools to build credibility independently.
Thank you — I really appreciate your note and am glad the framing resonated. You’re onto something re: the timing with declining institutional trust alongside growing access to tools for individual trust-building.
It will be interesting to see how current shifts in work and authority play out for people who built their careers within institutional environments. It’s understandably unsettling for many people who invested so much in these roles in service of the public good. But I think there’s also real opportunity to help them extend their impact beyond those structures.
Love how you framed institutional precarity as an oppertunity rather than just a loss - that perspective shift matters. The attention economy burning itself out with AI slop is kinda poetic honestly, and platforms finally rewarding depth over virality feels like the correction we needed. What really stuck with me is how this opens doors for experts serving marginalized communities to bypass legacy systems that ignored them. Building direct connections and closing information gaps could be transformational if enough people lean into it. The timing is intresting too since trust in institutions is tanking right when individual experts have the tools to build credibility independently.
Thank you — I really appreciate your note and am glad the framing resonated. You’re onto something re: the timing with declining institutional trust alongside growing access to tools for individual trust-building.
It will be interesting to see how current shifts in work and authority play out for people who built their careers within institutional environments. It’s understandably unsettling for many people who invested so much in these roles in service of the public good. But I think there’s also real opportunity to help them extend their impact beyond those structures.