FS 295: Erik Dietrich on the Future of Labor

Panel:

• Reuven Lerner
• Jonathan Stark
• Jeremy Green

Special Guest: Erik Dietrich In this episode of the Freelancer’s Show, the panelist and guest Eric Dietrich discuss “Future of Labor.” Erik is a software developer, was an executive a software company, but turn to consulting for a number of years. Currently, Erik runs a digital content marketing agency and still does consulting. Erik is the author of a number of developer-related books, including Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor, which is the basis of today’s episode topic. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Demands for software
• Labor vs. Knowledge work
• Software architects to Developer
• Law firm agency, apprenticeship
• Leaving big companies
• Giving up on staffing IT, etc.
• Outsourcing
• History of corporation
• Just sitting in your basement and code…
• Business skills  - Being an entrepreneur, not an employee
• What should a developer do to take advantage of this?
• Start to understand the  fundamentals of a business
• Maintenance work vs. designing the future
• UpWork -  and commodity labor
• Transferable skills
• Trends for Freelancers
• Becoming business savvy, entrepreneurial
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• And much more!     

Links

• https://github.com/erikdietrich
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-dietrich-109a888/
• https://www.amazon.com/Erik-Dietrich/e/B00J6314XY=
• @daedtech

Picks Reuven Lerner

• Slow Burn Podcast

Jonathan Stark

• Dyson V8
• Value Pricing BootCamp

Jeremy Green Increase Your Consulting Fees

• Increase Your Consulting Fees

Erik Dietrich

• Developer Hegemony
• Post Scan Mail