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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall
by pault 11y ago
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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Edit: I sort of meant this tongue in cheek, but I do look forward to the day when cheap energy and life extension give bright people the opportunity to do all of the things in the parent post. Until then, yes, it's probably better to do one thing masterfully than many things poorly. I wish I had more time for learning for learning's sake, but I've only been playing this game for a few decades and I don't want to nerf my character.
- kazinator 11y ago> Specialization is for insects. As in, spending years to learn how to code instead of moving on to butchering that sonnet and comforting that hog.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago> Specialization is for insects. The single most successful clade in the history of this earth.
- scandox 11y agoDefine success
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoNumerically, yes. I aspire to be something more, however.
- protomyth 11y agoSpecialization allows doctors to save more patients. Specialization means I don't have to do a bunch of stuff just to survive when I could be doing something I love. We can expand the frontiers of humanity when all of us wander in new directions as opposed to having to learn to do everything.