I Achieved the Four-Hour Workweek. So, Why Did I Just Take a Job?

Mike Taylor reflects on achieving the solopreneur dream of minimal work hours, then choosing to take a role as head of tech consulting at Every. The piece explores the tension between optimizing for freedom and optimizing for impact.

Content was behind paywall. The preview establishes the counterintuitive premise: having achieved what many knowledge workers aspire to, Taylor found something missing that pulled him back into structured employment — likely the scale and collaboration that a team provides versus solo independence.

RDCO mapping: Interesting counterpoint to the “everyone becomes a solopreneur” narrative. Relevant to our positioning work — the argument that even with AI enabling extreme individual leverage, some people choose teams for reasons beyond efficiency. Reference for content about the future of work structures.