It’s easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don’t change, your field changes around you. - Walter Gilbert
Technology is disrupting the way we work. Independent or contract work is hardly a new phenomenon, but the post-global financial crisis era especially saw tremendous growth in this labor market. This rise was in part predicted by the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase. His transaction cost theory said that firms only employ people directly when the cost of finding, supervising, and paying outside contractors is higher than for internal