You may recall what Paul Krugman said about the Internet in 1998:

"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s."

Okay, Paul.

Anyone can see that, contra Krugman, the Internet revolutionized commerce. It also revolutionized work for people who were ready to embrace the new technology.

Musicians wouldn't need traditional record labels anymore. Documentary filmmakers could release their work to the world without a huge company backing them. People could open stores without taking out a million-dollar loan to construct a giant building. And if you played your cards right and really mastered the technology, all of a sudden you could work anytime, and from anywhere -- a social and economic revolution in itself.

Well, we're currently experiencing a second wave of technological advance, and it seems certain that as with the Internet itself, those who get in on the ground floor are going to leave folks who pretend it isn't happening in the dust.

I just finished reading a book, recommended to me by Connor Boyack, called 10X Is Easier Than 2X. I can't get it out of my mind, and I keep thinking about how to apply its lessons to my life.

From what I've been reading, there is definitely a 10X moment brewing for eCommerce.

The world's number-one eCommerce training platform, which has been training people to build online stores for a dozen years (its students, all regular people, have gone from zero to making over $10 billion in sales), and which has stayed on the cutting edge of best practices all that time, is evidently about to unleash the next stage of eCommerce, whereby the latest technology will make running a profitable online store far easier than ever before.

Technology has made plenty of things easier over the past 25 years or so, after all. With no formal training I can now be a decent audio editor, for example, thanks to the emergence of technology that even a dope like me can use. Big stores have made inventory management far easier than ever before. Even something as simple as DIY projects around the house are far easier today than they were 25 years ago, thanks to tutorials on everything under the sun.

Well, it's time these kind of advances reached eCommerce, which is how most people who work online make their living. Except you'll have a secret advantage over them:

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Tom Woods