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Venkatesh Rao — The Art of Gig (EP.152)

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The Failure of Nerve in the Gig Economy

Basic failure in the gig economy is essentially a failure of nerve./nArthur C. Clark has a wonderful essay called failures of prophecy, which discusses two types of failure in thinking about the future-failure of imagination and failure of nerve./nFailure of nerve is by far the more important.

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