HeyJaredSarah Trumble
Columnist. Entrepreneur. Systems thinker reimagining online hiring. "The world changes when ordinary people do extraordinary things."
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The Flat-Earth Economics of HR Tech “Expertise” (opens the original)
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What if the way we talk about hiring is the clearest evidence that something is wrong with it? Run a simple test: take five everyday hiring phrases, move them into any other marketplace, and see whether they still make sense.“No one wants to work anymore” becomes Disney blaming kids for an empty park. “Optimize your résumé for the ATS” means humans adapt to software instead of software adapting to humans. “Hiring is a black box” would never be accepted from a stock exchange or a bank.“Don’t talk
The Flat-Earth Economics of HR Tech “Expertise” (opens the original)
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Bold premise: In a two-sided marketplace a stakeholder is never responsible for a vendors failure to coordinate outcomes. They are the people the bad outcome failed. You don’t need to read a 10-K to notice something is economically strange when the company selling the solution publicly blames the people its solution is supposed to serve.I’ve spent a lot of time digging through SEC filings, fiscal-year reports, investor presentat
The Economic Reformation (opens the original)
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Modern hiring technology collects extraordinary amounts of information about job seekers, while giving job seekers remarkably little power to provide consequential information back to the market. That distinction raises a bigger question: Can something function as a market if only one side has the power to tell the system when it is failing?Using online hiring as a case study, the video explores social architecture, identity systems, information asymmetry, market coordination, and what happens w
The Economic Reformation (opens the original)
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Bold supposition: Human social systems have architecture just as physical structures do.A cathedral, a university, a bank, and a courthouse can serve entirely different purposes while sharing the same architectural style. Gothic architecture does not tell us what happens inside the building. It tells us something about how the building is structured.Families, religions, corporations, governments, schools, and markets may exist for radically different purposes while sharing recognizable arrangeme
Extracting Value While Claiming to Create It (opens the original)
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The core argument: Economic markets create value by solving real constraints (a bridge solves a river, not scarcity of steel). Scarcity, by contrast, doesn’t create value — it creates leverage and control. The piece argues online hiring platforms have built businesses around managing scarcity and access rather than solving the actual coordination problem between employers and job seekers.Key framework — social capital: Borrowing from Bourdieu, the author defines social capital as how much an ind
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