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Our work culture’s shift toward the shallow (whether you think it’s philosophically good or bad) is exposing a massive economic and personal opportunity for the few who recognize the potential of resisting this trend and prioritizing depth—an opportunity that, not too long ago, was leveraged by a bored young consultant from Virginia named Jason Ben
... See moreCal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
There are also promising cultural and macro shifts supporting a resurgence of entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and small businesses.
Bessemer Venture Partners • Roadmap: Enabling entrepreneurship in the creator economy
starting in the late 1980s, with the explosion of the knowledge economy, people who were broader—who had worked across numerous technological domains—started making the biggest impacts. That's continuing today.
Alex Hickey • A Conversation With "Range" Author David Epstein
I think these roles point to something a bit broader: the need for more generalist, or at least outlier, roles in organizations.
arbesman.substack.com • ☞ Outlier Roles in Venture Capital (and other Organizations)
“They’re at the vanguard of a movement that’s leveraging the disruptions of the pandemic to question so many more of the arbitrary assumptions that have come to define the modern workplace.”