Saturday, August 12, 2006

Disk professional & compound work capital

I wrote earlier about "disk professionals": people whose work is continuously captured, in digital format, so that they keep working on that work to refine it and develop it.

Windows, by Microsoft / Bill Gates, is perhaps the single best example of "disk work." You can appreciate how powerful the Disk Work paradigm is, simply by realizing that it made Bill Gates the richest man in the world.

Yet, the overwhelming majority of people, all over the world, still operate every day according to the "Desk Work" paradigm. That is, people show up at the office, sit down at their desk, do whatever they're supposed to do, then go home at 5 PM without ever packaging their day's work onto a disk.

The Desk Work paradigm says that your time = money. You are paid by the hour.

The Disk Work paradigm says that the value you create = money. You can create value anywhere, anytime. The only thing required is that your client has to acknowledge that what you produce is indeed value, and your client has to be willing and able to pay for that value.

The bottom line is that under the Disk Work paradigm, there is a mysterious, powerful compounding effect at work. That is, you create something of value on Monday, and then on Tuesday, you work ON that value to develop it. You are continually working on your work! (Whereas the majority of people just work).

Anything in this universe that has a compounding effect, tends to grow exponentially. If your work output grows exponentially, well expect your income to also grow exponentially!