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kottke.org posts about outsourcing

Best new trend (if one is a

Best new trend (if one is a trend…): personal annual reports. See also personal branding, personal outsourcing, personal board of advisors.


Inspired by Thomas Friedman’s book, A.J.

Inspired by Thomas Friedman’s book, A.J. Jacobs outsources his life to India. He starts with his job but is eventually letting his Indian assistants argue with his wife, read to his son at night, edit his Wikipedia entry on his behalf, and even worry for him. Ben Hammersley also recently wrote about personal outsourcing.


Here’s a story that mentions that Slashdot

Here’s a story that mentions that Slashdot commenter that outsourced his job. “About a year ago I hired a developer in India to do my job. I pay him $12,000 out of the $67,000 I get. He’s happy to have the work. I’m happy that I have to work only 90 minutes a day just supervising the code. My employer thinks I’m telecommuting. Now I’m considering getting a second job and doing the same thing.”


Personal outsourcing is becoming more commonplace

Personal outsourcing is becoming more commonplace. Reminds me of the guy on Slashdot who outsourced his work-at-home job to an Indian programmer.