From my earliest days of work, I was warned about an affliction that might threaten my career.

This affliction was known as the hole in the CV or the gap in the résumé.

Anyone who contracted this dreaded disease, I was told, would likely never get a decent job again.

As a coder in my early twenties, I calculated the consequences of this admonition. If I were to be allowed no gaps in my résumé, then I’d have to spend my entire life working. I’d be coding every day, every year, every decade until I dropped dead.

It was as if I were being warned never to do anything interesting with my life.

So I did what any self-respecting twenty-something would do. I quit. I left my decent job as a coder and didn’t get another one. I wrote a book. I went to Antarctica.

I’ve spent the decades since peppering my CV with as many holes as I possibly can.

Here’s how one technology has entrenched the idea of job after job after job, and how another technology promises to explode that convention.

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The technology that has entrenched the idea of job after job after job is, of course, LinkedIn.

The technology promises to explode that convention is Polywork.

The many things I’m working on include Open Web Mind, Tangled Web, The Last Theory, The Quit Work Project, things made thinkable and goodwoodglobes.

You can find me on Polywork at polywork.com/markjeffery.

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I release Tangled Web as a video too! Watch here.

The full article is here.

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Martin Feld believes in RSS, the protocol for getting podcasts out there, so much that he used the letters RSS to name his Really Specific Stories podcast.

Why? Because RSS is open. No one controls it. Anyone can put out a podcast on RSS.

In our short conversation, Martin and I talk about tech podcasting, touching on his research into how it fits into the media landscape, and how fandom and persona influence how people show up on podcasts.

Above all, we discuss why it’s so important that podcasting remain open.

You can find Martin’s podcasts Hemispheric Views at hemisphericviews.com and Really Specific Stories at www.rsspod.net, and you can find out more about what Martin’s up to at martinfeld.info

I release this podcast as a video too! Watch here.

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Tarek Madany Mamlouk is all about tech content.

From hour-long multi-host podcasts through snappy YouTube explainers to TikToks, he has it all covered.

What are the different demands of each format? How do you repurpose content from audio to video and vice versa? When will it work as is and when will the recording need to be adapted to the different medium?

Join Tarek and me for our lively conversation about tech content creation.

You can find Tarek’s podcasts The Innovation Engineer at tie-pod.com and Tech Review at techreview.axelspringer.com.

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I release this podcast as a video too! Watch here.

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