A possibly relevant example. Bill Taylor was a generalist, described by a more technical computer scientist colleague as a "concert pianist without fingers". Th

A possibly relevant example. Bill Taylor was a generalist, described by a more technical computer scientist colleague as a "concert pianist without fingers". Through his position at NASA, he had the vision to fund Doug Engelbart's mouse project around the age of 30, which directly enabled the mother of all demos in '68. https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/technologies/taylor_more.html https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/technologies/taylor_more.h...