How “Hey, you should write a book about the Future Of Work”, is becoming a VC Fund.

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3 years ago at a dinner with my co-founders of GetLinks, we were discussing how I was writing these blog posts and some of them were going viral sometimes (like this one). At some point, one of my co-founders said: “Hey, you should write a book about the Future Of Work”, we all laughed about this. But the idea grew in my mind and started to push me to wake up at 5 am in the morning to think about it more seriously.

Aftermath.

In case you don’t know, I wrote a book the next year and published it in January 2020.

As you can imagine, it hasn’t been easy to find time to do anything else than taking care of GetLinks, but, had a trick:

During the past 10 years, during my many trips across Hong Kong, Singapore, San Francisco, or Europe; anytime I was meeting someone interesting, I put some references in my iPhone notes. I had 4300 notes with an average length of 30 words, that’s 129,000 words. Wasn’t easy to curate the notes on food recipes and the notes on Distributed Solar Photovoltaics marke…