Do we need more specialist or more generalist skills for the future? Some futurists predict that, in the age of AI, choosing to be a generalist will be a risky career move. Someone with broad, basic competence in multiple domains is likely to be overtaken by an AI language model.
However, there is a growing view that generalists will own the future. A generalist has something that language models don’t have: the capacity to learn quickly & see/solve novel problems in new domains. The person who thrives in the future might not be the expert who knows the exact answer to a question (specialist). Rather, it might be the one who knows which questions to ask in the first place (generalist).
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Felt a bit low today and then received this message from our director of engineering which made my day
"Just had my one to one with ******. He said some lovely things about you including 'When I'm with Holly I feel like I can achieve anything'"
Leaders are often promoted into positions without essential people skills. They may have longevity, strategic thinking, the right connections but they never say “how are you really doing?” “thank you for everything you’ve done” or “I’m sorry I got that wrong” Leadership is this.
Liverpool, Walthamstow, Oxford, Bristol - beautiful scenes from up and down the country of communities coming together in the face of hatred this evening.
THIS is who we are, THIS is what we should be striving for.