The Future of Generalist Work

many of society’s most pressing challenges – such as climate change – require highly creative problem-solving that crosses multiple domains, and polymaths may be the best people to find those solutions.

David Robson • Why Some People Are Impossibly Talented

Today, management is a skill that only a select few know because it is expensive to train managers: You need to give them a team of humans to practice on. But AI is cheap enough that tomorrow, everyone will have the chance to be a manager—and that will significantly increase the creative potential of every human being.

It will be on our society as a... See more

Dan Shipper • The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy

How to clarify a concept you can’t articulate:

1. Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.

2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).

3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?

James Clear • 3-2-1: On hard conversations, how to ruin a good strategy, and asking for what you want

How great generalists think

Different backgrounds, different views, different experiences. The best teams are diverse. These are the ingredients that spark innovation.

Daniel Rizea • Top 5 Learnings After Mentoring 100 Startups

Diversity of backgrounds can also mean diversity of generalist vs. specialist skillsets. Generalists become multi-functional, bringing domain expertise from corners that you might least expect it.

This has been the core question I’ve sat with for the last decade—how to balance money and meaning on the entrepreneurial path. And there are three archetypal ways that I’ve seen people approach the question:

The deferred life plan

Being bivocational

Choosing to integrate

Casey Rosengren • The 3 Ways to Balance Money and Meaning

The Silicon Valley small business, the SV-SB, is a hybrid of sorts — it intertwines small business values and discipline with big tech know-how and ambition.

Founding teams may look like that of a “traditional” Silicon Valley startup. They’re native to Silicon Valley ethos, skills, and playbooks. But , beneath the surface, they’re different. You

Anu • Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business

It’s time we rebuild the rhythms of our organizations around the substantive bits instead of the knee-jerk ones. What happened to virtues like discipline, contemplation, care, and reflection in our work lives?

Brie Wolfson • Good Cogs and Their Tools

Top tier executive assistants are great at many things but have critical core operational tasks and simply don’t have the wide strategic business context required for CoS-style work.

Michael Houck • Understanding Cost Of Sales | Blog - Houck's Newsletter

And what you see internally is what I'll say is razor-sharp focus on reducing cycle time and bias to action and how do we reduce cycle time. I think it's basically the core of it culturally to me is getting people to think about smaller units of time for decision making. It seems obvious but I think you really have to reinforce it culturally. So... See more

Lessons from scaling Ramp | Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor)

“It's just to remind people that we don't work in years, quarters, weeks, we work in days. Each day matters and so never put out something tomorrow that you know can get done today. And that bias to action really permeates not just in the product teams but everywhere.”