It strikes me there's an interesting collateral issue here. Your article succinctly describes the pressures and trends, and I agree that time for "offline" formal training is both a luxury, and increasingly pointless - accepting error through learning by doing seems far more productive. The collateral issue is one of creativity. Insight depends on making "weak connections" - rather than the default "this works" connections . We now have wonderful opportunities through networking to explore weak connections at an external p2p level, but for ourselves, it's a different matter. Personal insight, the neural coonection of weal links, needs reflection (and often support - e.g. coaching) but time for reflection is scarce, and some of the "wondering" tools - e.g. search engines, are being more and more subverted by "automate search" - i.e. find what everybody else has found. Nicholas Carr's book "The Shallows" touches on this, and is a good primer. Yes, perpetual beta is reshaping work boundaries and practise, but in here somewhere, we need to find a way of giving our biggest assets - our individual, unique take on things - the space to flourish so that when we are "doing", we're offering the best we can be. Otherwise, we face a danger of diminishing marginal returns on current knowledge and insight, rather than the developing on new thoughts. Great blog. Thankyou.