Dec 20, 2019

💫 2019 Year-End Perspectives 3/4

By Kerry from Try Catch • Issue #13 • View online

Morning, Friday.

Here we are, the Friday before the December holidays.

Maybe you’re opening this, hot off the press at 09:10 while you’re checking email, holding fast your resolve to push through the last workday before what will hopefully be a festive time - low on stress and high on eating.

Maybe you’re checking your email on the weekend at the airport/train station/bus stop before you head back to the family home for the holidays.

In any case, we’re happy you’re reading this, and we’d ♥️ it if you’d share it with a friend or colleague if you find its contents relevant.

We here at Try Catch will be available to answer any of your burning talent acquisition inquiries over the holiday, if you experience such a thing and I, Kerry (the humble newsletter author), am ever-at-the-ready to receive any feedback you have about our newsletter, social media, or other marketing efforts.

Just hit reply and I shall promptly respond. 🕺🏼

You’ve probably already received 2 of these newsletters this month, so I can safely assume you know the drill, but for the newcomers: The December editions of the Try Catch Essentials Newsletters have been more broadly-focussed content-wise.

We’re covering bits of industry-adjacent insights of 2020, light-weight 2019 year-in-review content and wild retro-reads of predictions of 2020 from the past.

When’s the last time you read something on the internet written in 2000?

We’ve got one of those at the bottom of the newsletter, so now you’ll have an answer to that question.

Enjoy and Happy Holidays!

~ Kerry

Industry Adjacent

LinkedIn Emerging Jobs Report

A list of 11 countries’ 2020 Emerging Jobs Reports utilizing LinkedIn data, which aims to shine a spotlight on the jobs experiencing tremendous growth in the respective countries. We’ve included the list of available reports, to save you a click.

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Looking Ahead

The future of talent acquisition: Two experts talk about recruitment tech in 2020 | Workable

When’s the last time that you got a “professional” job in a non-digital ad? When’s the last time you were sourcing candidates in a non-digital manner? Technology and the Internet have made themselves indispensable in recruitment and hiring. HR pros Hung Lee and Matt Alder shared their insights in a Workable webinar. Hung is the curator of the Recruiting Brainfood Newsletter and Matt hosts the Recruiting Future Podcast.

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2020 predictions from 28 big-hitters in Europe's startup scene | Sifted

The article starts off with some big questions:

Is 2020 going to be the year when European startups start to poach talent from the US? Is it going to be the year when American money pours into Europe? Or will this be the year when remote working finally takes off, bullshit startup mission statements die and impact startups dominate?

With predictions from investors, founders and ecosystem builders, the article runs the gamut on some big ideas for 2020.

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2020 and Beyond Programming Trend Predictions | Better Programming

Maybe 2020 will be the year that the “West” finally begins to catch up to ideas China’s Tencent and Alibaba have developed as now commonplace systems in Asia for years. Now that cloud computing is so commonplace here, I can definitely see that as a possibility for 2020.

Spoiler: the author is really pushing Rust.

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Pleasure Scrolling

Reddit’s 2019 Year in Review – Upvoted

Reddit pats itself and its user-base on the back for all the redditing that they’ve done in in 2019. But there’s also some interesting insights about the growth of sub-reddits/communities and emergence of trends on the platform.

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99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn't Hear About in 2019 | Future Crunch

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

~ Charles Dickens (1859)

December is always a weird month, with the early onset of darkness, and its arbitrary place at the end of year by the Gregorian Calendar. It somehow calls for retrospection, introspection, and projection. And perhaps it calls for a deep throwback to a 160-year-old quote from Chuck Dickens.

Especially with the ever-loved-hyperbole-by-the-english-language-media “vitriolic,"controversial outrage by politicians spamming the front pages, it’s easy to miss non-caustic updates of the world.

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Future Predictions from the Past

The Year 2020, Explained | WIRED

Twenty years sure goes by fast these days. This Wired piece from 2000 claims that it has explained what next year is going to look like. One example:

In 2020, “our electronics will be 10,000 times as capable as they are today.”

Ten thousand times is a pretty big multiplier. Anyone want to run the numbers on how capable tech was in 2000 versus next year’s innovations?

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16 Crazy Future Predictions from the 90s | Valuer

You won’t believe number 6! Just kidding, imagine if you had a newsletter sending you such clickbait. Never would we ever do that, dear reader. Although, it’s hard to call these “crazy” looking back, some of these predictions are 25-years-old and given the cultural context of the 90s, at the time, these must have really been quite crazy. Especially number 6. 😋

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Next Up

We’ll continue our 2019 Year-End Perspectives for one more Friday in December.

We’re dying to know what you ate over the holiday so hit reply and attach a picture so we can all test a theory of digitally induced postprandial sleepiness.

Try Catch Essentials will be back in January on the topic of Hyper-Growth - how to best grow when you need to and methods to best navigate growing pains.

Stay Connected

We’d love to hear about your thoughts on the newsletter, slap reply or email kerry@trycatch.tech with any comments, suggestions, or your favorite song that came out this year.

📀 Here’s mine.

See you next Friday!

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