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2 claims Elizabeth Stone made fit 2 mental models. Most often: Craft in the details, Specialise and trade. Everything they said here.

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Craft in the details

Care about the parts nobody sees; quality shows in the details.

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Adam WigginsAndy MadrickDieter RamsDylan FieldEmil KowalskiThePrimeagenand 2 more

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Craft excellence within each discipline is not going away, however much AI blurs the work across functional lines.

  1. Elizabeth Stone Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix I still see a craft excellence that's really important in the disciplines that I don't think is going away anytime soon. Even if there's fluidity or blurring of the work across the functional lines. Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)youtube.com · 19 Jul 2026 · 0:12:26 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Their wordsI still see a craft excellence that's really important in the disciplines that I don't think is going away anytime soon. Even if there's fluidity or blurring of the work across the functional lines.

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    ↗Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)youtube.com

    19 Jul 2026 · video · 1h 12m · spoken · machine transcript

Specialise and trade

Do what you are relatively best at and trade for the rest (comparative advantage); it holds until power or change breaks it.

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Dan WangIlya SutskeverMichael NielsenMolson HartScott H. Young

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Compared with five or ten years ago a company needs fewer narrow specialists and more people who are adaptable in several directions.

  1. Elizabeth Stone Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix But as a general rule, uh compared to 5 or 10 years ago, I I would believe we have fewer specialists and more people who are generalists or adaptable in multiple directions. Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)youtube.com · 19 Jul 2026 · 0:23:01 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Their wordsBut as a general rule, uh compared to 5 or 10 years ago, I I would believe we have fewer specialists and more people who are generalists or adaptable in multiple directions.

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    Watch from 0:23:01 plays here

    ↗Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)youtube.com

    19 Jul 2026 · video · 1h 12m · spoken · machine transcript