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Perhaps the most apt example here would be Steve Jobs whose broad range of interests in things like typography, design, and computing, came together into someth
by gdubs 7y ago
Perhaps the most apt example here would be Steve Jobs whose broad range of interests in things like typography, design, and computing, came together into something greater than the sum of its parts.
The “intersection of technology and the liberal arts.”
- hliyan 7y agoOr, to use a more dated example, like "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"...
- rchaud 7y agoThe Jobs case is instructive also because it was this exact lack of focus that got him fired from Apple the first time. Remember him wanting the factory machinery painted bright white? It served no engineering or business purpose, he just thought it looked nicer. How different might his story have been if Toy Story bombed, Pixar went bust and he never came back to Apple? Specialist v Generalist is an interesting discussion for sure, but looking at personalities in isolation and ignoring the environmental variables aren't going to help average people decide where on the spectrum they want to end up.