Notes: June 22, 2025

Expert Generalists: The lost art of "IT Universalis"

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…and now back to our notes.

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• As computer systems get more sophisticated we've seen a growing trend to value deep specialists. But we've found that our most effective colleagues have a skill in spanning many specialties.

• We are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”.