This is a pattern even in software industry itself. People specialise too early in their career, zooming closer and closer to a tree, knows everything about a l

This is a pattern even in software industry itself. People specialise too early in their career, zooming closer and closer to a tree, knows everything about a leaf. Fewer and fewer people see the forest. A side effect of specialising is that the skill that you specialise in become a commodity. In the book Finite and Infinite Game, it is said that an infinite game can contain a finite game, but a finite game cannot contain an infinite game. Take it out of context, a generalist is an infinite game, who can be anything, who can be specialised. A specialist, or a specialist organisation is a finite game. Once we started the specialist game, it is turtle all the way down. Everything has to be specialised. So a start up usually start with a bunch of generalists. Over time it specialises into ever granular units