Carragee Consulting

I found a job because of their website domain
name.

In 2021 I was thinking about rebranding Carragee Consulting as Analytics in Action and discovered that domain name was taken by a guy in NZ. (good on him!)

Then I looked for Actionable Analytics and I found Action Analytics, a federation of highly skilled independent consultants with particular specialties in data viz and data prep.

I think a lot about the future of work and various models to exchange labor for renumeration.

During a free session on pricing yesterday hosted by Barry Edney and Frank Frohmann, a former partner at SKP, mentioned that as an independent Frank misses the learning culture and collaboration of a bigger firm sometimes.

Many people want intellectually challenging work, avenues to apply their experience, skills, health insurance, personal autonomy and flexibility and a stable wage which meets their lifestyle expectations.

Some find that as founders or freelancing, contract work, FT job hopping, or lifetime employment at a single company.

In addition to recruiting, various tech platforms have popped up to match skilled and willing workers to the work.

Lots of people add a “Book a Chat” button to their website and some of them charge for sessions. One of my favorite consulting partners, Robert Ribciuc even did pricing work with 10to8 (now Sign in Scheduling).

It’s probably bad timing to refer to Stack Overflow as a business model suggestion, but people specializing in Pricing and Strategy need to vet their ideas and de-bug issues just as much as technical folks.

What would you call a clearing house for intellectual engagement that helps you get unstuck?

For $160k you could call it PickMyBrain.com, or someone already build PickMyBrain.world.

Disclaimer: I haven’t thought through the ethics of this, but…

If I ran Pick My Brain I’d figure out how to scrape the booking links from other scheduling companies and mine the host bios so that they could be aggregated and standardized on my platform.

Then when my site helped you to find a discussion partner or advisor who wasn’t already among my registered brains they would get an invitation to join.

The future of how we work is evolving quickly but not fast enough to optimize the needs of either employers or employees at the moment, suggesting that model doesn’t fit the pace of innovation and radical transformation.

It’s possible that the future could be more egalitarian and meritocratic, but we have to consciously build those values into the systems, tools and frameworks to allocate work and compensate contributors.