Whale Oil Manufacturing and the New Economy

Seth has an interesting analogy about the rapidly changing world and the ramifications of such huge, sea changing business climates. I felt a bit of a chill when I read it. Yes, many good industries are dying... some fast, some agonizingly slow, but dying none the less. The loss of some of the industries and careers and jobs we love, that have fed our families and provided our lifestyles will be sad and the loss will be deep.
Grieve.
Then get up and get going on what the next thing will be and how you can work with it to begin again.

Seth's Blog: "We're in the middle of the biggest shift(s) of the last century--whole industries are disappearing, worldviews are changing and the rules are being rewritten. One thing I've noticed in Amsterdam (I spoke to about 400 entrepreneurs yesterday, not all of them young, not all of them independent, not all of them homogeneous) is that there's a real bias for action here. People here are itching to get on to the next thing. That and I couldn't find any whale oil for sale. Not one drop."