How Can I Earn an Income?

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I think the main way that you can really get left behind is trying to maintain what is currently true to day against forces that are inevitably trying to change it. I've been doing something similar, which basically means iam trying to learn skills in many different places so that regardless of the way the future unfolds, i will probably be ok. But at the same time, like there's all these ways of making money, and i'm doing it from all these different sources. So if one goes down, then maybe i can scale another up, or maybe i can figure something else out. It just reflects how wrong my past self would have been, and probably how wrong my current self is for

What do airplanes, railroads, and jazz music have in common? They were all innovations that people feared.

In fact, if you look into any key technology shift from the past, you'll find a wealth of fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding it. And while this shouldn't be surprising, we can still learn from the skeptics of the past.

We can learn just how difficult it is to predict what's to come and look toward our future with a humble perspective, an acceptance that we probably will get it wrong again.

In this episode, Calvin and Steph talk through how people viewed inventions seemingly as innocuous as the bicycle or teddy bear, what we can learn from these stories, and how to stay open minded and capitalize on opportunities as technology takes us into the future.