What the heck is a Full Stack Human?
Borrowed from the tech world’s most versatile professionals, a ‘full stack developer’ can work across every layer of a system: from databases to user interfaces, from back- end programming to front- end experience.
They don’t just understand one piece of the pie; they see how the whole thing fits together.
We want you to imagine applying this integrated thinking to yourself and your life.
A Full Stack Human doesn’t just develop individual skills in isolation.
They integrate thinking, feeling, sensing and creating across multiple layers of complexity. They don’t freeze when the rules change midgame and they don’t cling to old maps when the terrain has completely shifted.
They work fluidly between their back- end processing (the unconscious patterns driving behaviour) and their front- end experience (how they show up in the world).
Most importantly, they understand that in a world where artificial intelligence can replicate our analytical thinking, our competitive advantage isn’t being smarter than machines — it’s being more brilliantly, adaptably, courageously human.
A Full Stack Human works across the entire human stack:
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Technical AND creative
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Strategic AND empathetic
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Data-driven AND intuition-led
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Analytical AND playful
This is a fundamentally different
way of thinking about human capability
in an age of artificial
everything
THE 5 LAYER STACK
The five-layer stack is an integrated operating system of human capabilities that work together to help you navigate complexity without losing your mind, values or sense of humour.
It's not about mastering five separate skills, but activating what's already brilliant about you so you can turn obstacles into upgrades.
SERIOUS
PLAY
STRATEGIC
HOPE
INTELLIGENT
OPTIMISM
RADICAL
CURIOSITY
EMBODIED
ADAPTABILITY
