But, strangely, because software is really a form of idea rather than mechanical function, the patented software is not strictly limited to the original hardware implementation it was conceived for.

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But these are still solvable requirements: make the labor market more fluid, allow people to expose their skills development more publicly, teach people to package their business experience better, make people better developers of their own narrative, better managers of their core problem solving skills rather than their exact implementation skills, accept we are constantly in beta mode, and teach people, quickly, to function in conditions of unprecedented uncertainty.

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