Your competitors are using the same models you are. Probably the same tools too. If you are waiting for a better AI to give you an edge, you are waiting for something that will arrive for everyone …
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The T-Shaped Professional in the Age of AI — Video Essay
I wrote a six-part series on the T-shaped professional and why the profile matters more in the age of AI than it did before. This is the video version: the same argument, made in eight minutes. Most …
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Code Isn’t Product: The Discovery Debt AI Is Creating
There is a number that does not appear in most AI productivity reports: the percentage of AI-accelerated products that customers actually use. I call this gap discovery debt. Rich Mironov recently …
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Integration Is the Skill AI Can’t Replicate
The easy prediction, at the start of this AI cycle, was that AI would take the specialist jobs first. The repetitive ones, the narrow ones. The prediction has a partial truth in it: AI is eroding the …
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The T-Shaped Organisation
Most organisations are built around the specialist's logic: hire the best person for each function, give each function clear ownership, coordinate handoffs at the boundaries. The org chart is a map of …
The T-Shaped Advantage
The usual case for t-shaped skills is made in terms of optionality: the more domains you know something about, the more flexible you are, the more roles are available to you. This is true but not the …