Breadth first thinker here: Understand the jokes, these are the edges and shape of its applicability, and mnemonics for its concepts. Get very good depth first

Breadth first thinker here: Understand the jokes, these are the edges and shape of its applicability, and mnemonics for its concepts. Get very good depth first in a few other foundation areas so that you know what discipline and rigor of real depth looks like, figure out how to identify people who also have depth in something, and then use their minds to scale yours. I have absolute respect for depth of skills, and arguably even a rare appreciation for them, but with the caveat that there are diminishing returns and limited scalability on them, and this is the problem I typically index on solving. That is to say, I often tell people deadpan (to the point of it almost being my catchphrase), "I don't know very much, but I have opinions about everything."