Are you doing what you are best at?

Choice is good. Whenever there is a lack of choice you get things like monopolies, dead end jobs, bad marriages, general misery all the way around. The free market helps to increase choice. Company A is run by a machiavellian tyrant who does everything in his power to force people to buy his products which are bad. Company B is formed, makes a better product, puts company A out of business. Societal meritocracy and justice at its best. A kind of economic democracy where people vote with their dollars and decisions on what gets made and how.

But it doesn’t always work. Lots of things have to fall into place to create something new , like a company. You have to find the right people with the right skills, investors, someone with a vision for how to put it all together. And here too having lots of choices makes things better.

Why do we work anyway? Well to put a roof over our heads and food on the table of course, but what then? Nicer roofs and nicer food on nicer tables ? For most people that’s not enough. We have to do something that matters in some deep way. All that deep stuff that bounces through your head at night when you look at the stars, when you see people suffering in some far away country and say to yourself things aren’t right. Humanity can be so much more. There is allot of broken, backward ass stuff that perpetuates on and on and on.

So how do we get there? Who decides where there is? Don’t know. But I know choice is good. And I know that the more choices that someone has the more likely they will be better off tomorrow. So imagine this, every resource and every opportunity being know by everyone. Say there is hurricane. People need food and shelter. All the inventories of food that is available is known. All the people willing to donate money is known. All the trucks and boats available is known. All the people to drive the trucks, known, all the locations of where people need food, known, all the people willing to distribute the food, known. And most importantly the integrity of everyone to make sure that money is not wasted is known. And even better, no government to manage it, just people doing it. People voting with their time and resources, self organizing.

And this applies to what people do everyday. Are you in the right job? Does what you do matter or are you just working for a paycheck. What if you knew of all the job opportunities around all the stuff that really mattered to you. What if you could connect with all the people wanting to do something and create opportunities?

The Internet can do this. Connect everything. Find everything. Fix everything.