Tom Scott

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Talking AI · Context, Control, Collaboration: Why Capability Was Never the Bottleneck · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And touching back on what we were discussing a few minutes ago about transformation being messy, I am also looking for resilience because change is never linear up and to the right.

It is often very cyclical.

And I need to have someone who's curious, able to retool and take a few lumps along the way because you are going to have to absorb some losses.

I think if you go back to what essentially the post-World War II org structure has been for companies, it's exactly like what you described.

Yeah.

It was increasing specialization at every level of the organization designed to move information up and down the hierarchy.

And that model is being completely contested today by what you can reasonably learn.

And a good example would be

In areas that were outside my subject matter expertise, it used to take me a significant amount of time to get up the curve on something new.

That's no longer the case.

I can walk into a session with a subject matter expert today

and be completely briefed on the background of it doesn't make me an expert, but it makes me educated enough to have an in-depth conversation and be able to make a decision there.

If you think about what this means for the org itself, going back to that curious point that we were talking about, it means we need to be looking for full stock employees.

And what full stack employees means is that they have to be able to orchestrate more of the work around them because the reporting and communication, we can build more automation on that basis, but we need to have someone who's got a broader span.

And you saw this first, like you typically see within engineering disciplines.

where you went from this idea that you had this somewhat linear SDLC, software development lifecycle, where you've got the development phase, you've got a front-end engineer, you've got a back-end engineer, you've got QA, all these pieces working in a somewhat linear fashion.

And we're moving very rapidly towards more of a full stack, and you refer to it as a 10X or 100X engineer, that's a full stack professional that's sitting there.

They may not be a full expert in every aspect of that, but they are able to deliver that full stack.

You're gonna see the same thing in marketing.

And marketing is classically divided the same way where you've got content marketers, you've got brand marketers, you've got performance marketing.

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