when all you have is a hammer, every problem to solve looks like a nail, the more mental tools you have the more likely it is that you'll see patterns or soluti

when all you have is a hammer, every problem to solve looks like a nail, the more mental tools you have the more likely it is that you'll see patterns or solutions that you wouldn't see otherwise. The human brain is not a machine that becomes more "optimized" the "less services are running", the more knowledge the better, even in fields that might seem only barely tangential to where your main interests lie