Shallow Skills Are Everywhere—Deep Expertise Is Getting Rare

Published: 7/9/2025

Duration: 00:52

Everyone’s becoming “T-shaped”… but depth is disappearing.
Shallow skills are crowded now—true expertise is getting rare.

Early in my career, being a generalist was uncommon because most people around me were proud specialists. Since around 2012, the industry has pushed us toward T-shaped talent—deep in one area, broad across many tools. The tradeoff is a market flooded with shallow knowledge, while real depth becomes harder to find.

- Why generalists used to be the exception, not the norm
- The “true editor” mindset (and why it falls apart)
- How the post-2012 shift pushed T-shaped talent
- The hidden cost of broader toolsets: a more crowded market
- Why shallow knowledge is now a dime a dozen
- Why deep expertise is becoming increasingly scarce

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