Forget chasing mastery. The new game is stacking.
Get yourself into the top 10% at three complementary skills and watch the maths bend reality.
Top 10% at one skill = 1 in 10 people
Top 10% at two skills = 1 in 100 people
Top 10% at three skills = 1 in 1,000,000 people
Think of a product manager who can write clean Python scripts and speak the language of CISOs. She is not the best coder or the best storyteller, yet she can translate an audit log into a board level aha. That makes her irreplaceable.
Look at the founder who pairs solid design chops with on camera ease and a habit of shipping short demos on LinkedIn. She is not Salvador Dali or Olivia Colman, but in the SaaS feed she owns a unique slice of attention.
Or take the security engineer who learns a bit of performance marketing and a bit of public speaking. He can patch a zero day and explain it live on a webinar that lands new customers while he sleeps.
The trick is not to pick random skills.
Look for edges that multiply each other.
Tech + storytelling + distribution. Design + AI tooling + community building. Finance + data wiz + regulatory instinct…
Pick your trio. Get deliberately good. Then ship proof.
A working prototype. A weekly newsletter. A series of short videos. Each output sharpens the stack and signals the market that you play a different game.
Mastery is noble. Stacking is faster. Choose your intersection and own it before someone else does.
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