Note on Explaining Tech's Notion of Talent Scarcity via Nadia Asparouhova
many if not most software companies are probably Pareto-distribution now, because they don’t compete on technical advantage. But – unlike management consulting – the software industry was historically built upon the notion of bimodal talent distribution, and is still culturally influenced by this way of seeing the world.
And thus we still have this “Linchpin” or 10x engineer mindset in places