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The Personal Revolution

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 Another quote on the outlook for people who aren't highly educated and/or highly skilled in ways attractive to data factory companies like Google and Facebook: “It means that life is very tough for most everyone in America” says Moritz. Moritz also covered the downsides of this shift.

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The Societal and Small Business Impacts of Economic Uncertainty

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If you Google "economic uncertainty" you will find many references to its impacts on the economy and business. But you won't find much on its impact on people and society.   Several articles this week provide some insight on some of these changes: 1.

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The Wall Street Journal's Small Business, Big Innovation Contest

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This is a great example of leveraging existing skills, capabilities and business infrastructure to enter an adjacent market.  This expansion operates on floor space that had been idle after a previous downsizing in 2008, more fully using our building space.   Vidler's 5 & 10 Inc. Regular emails to growing customer base.

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The Future Job That's Here Today

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  Key quote on this job from the article: "As the barrage of data grows—tweets, insulin-meter uploads, facial-recognition billboards—we’ll need skilled people to choose what data to pull and how to make it useful.   There are great jobs available right now to people with these skills

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Job Creation Confusion

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  A Google search on "Gazelles jobs" illustrates this. what once was a skilled labor is changing in dynamics, so it requires schooling, etc. And those employees with old job skills are out of it. economy's new jobs.  because the position is gone.

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