How large is the pseudonymous workforce and how quickly is it growing? Also curious to hear any bull or bear takes on this trend.
I’m pro bull trend. As foreign skilled workers realize it’s in their best interest not to define location and name as anything other than Bob who resides in SF🫡🇺🇸
Unsure of size but certainly not anti-pseudo. Hiring in this space we’ve often onboarded devs within hours and limited background info. We’re actually building a consumer product using decentralized identity primitives that will make this easier for anons. Trust work history credentials and attestations from other
cc @kiyo who is working on making psuedonymous hiring easier
Growing and bullish. Open graph + domain specific social networks = gig worker network with high signal wet dream
You can never be truly pseudonymous and maintain compliance. Someone has to have your tax info, confirm where you live, etc. I think for that reason, growth will be limited. Once you have to doxx yourself to HR, most of the reasons for concealing your identity are gone.
absence of judgment of credentials leads to focus on the work hard for someone pseudonymous to be anything but top-notch if the top talent migrates, hiring will follow https://twitter.com/no_doxx/status/1623741012580376579?s=20&t=tECn4AM2SHjwReQnIW5yQw
thanks, @greg :) people living in underpaid countries & working in tech are working remotely to be better compensated than locally. they have a solid incentive to be pseudonymous for higher compensation many people will work under pseudonyms over the next few years, like how remote work has become the norm
I tried pseudonymous OK hiring before. Didn’t expect a lot to come but there were ton of pseudo talents came to our application in reality. Some of them have been in pseudo for a long time, some applied with pseudo as they wanted because we welcomed. (they simply prefer it)
our org is ~30 now and we are anon forward. however we still have to retain identity documents to be compliant with local regs, however the only person to see this is our general counsel. Publicly we all retain our psuedonyms.
- would love to see some stats on size as well - @kiyo knows more than most folks - bullish on the pseudonymous economy & pseudo identities - problems to solve are compliance & trust
Pro bull, workplace discrimination can’t happen if you can pretend to be anything u want
1/ There’s a shift in work perception especially among GenZs. DAOs were the first draft were people saw themselves more as pseudo-anonymous contributors than “full time employees”
👋. Bullish. Also giraffish. For me, it’s more fun to work as a jiraffe on the internet than it is to work under the legal name my parents gave me. Less pressure, which helps me build better Not to mention moreReese is much more good looking than I am