"We will ultimately live in a perpetual data-driven talent edition," says Scott Belsky. "Everything you create will be measured and tracked by others through comments, share, and likes. Your work will come up on the radar of potential employers and clients, and the data will tell them if you are worth talking to or hiring."
Not exactly good news for those who don’t believe in the rightness of a single way of doing things; who are willing to acknowledge that their actions are not particularly special or important in the grand scheme of things and who are not driven by any big missions. Who, instead, are happy to take on the world without having to rely on anyone else to confirm their worth. Heroes of the mundane, who like Sisyphus, despite knowing the senselessness of it all, are nevertheless willing to continue rolling a boulder up the hill...
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