I was recently asked to explain what it means when people say that, for example, “There are only [10-200] people in the world who can do what [highly-paid AI researcher] does.” Why can’t more people be trained to do these jobs? The notion that only some engineers or researchers in the world can do certain types of work – i.e., nobody can learn how to be Linus Torvalds or Andrej Karpathy at a coding bootcamp – feels very intuitive to me, but apparently this is not necessarily intuitive, or even valued, among other industries. That made me wonder how much this implicit belief drives tech culture.
Explaining tech's notion of talent scarcity
Explaining tech's notion of talent scarcity
Explaining tech's notion of talent scarcity
I was recently asked to explain what it means when people say that, for example, “There are only [10-200] people in the world who can do what [highly-paid AI researcher] does.” Why can’t more people be trained to do these jobs? The notion that only some engineers or researchers in the world can do certain types of work – i.e., nobody can learn how to be Linus Torvalds or Andrej Karpathy at a coding bootcamp – feels very intuitive to me, but apparently this is not necessarily intuitive, or even valued, among other industries. That made me wonder how much this implicit belief drives tech culture.