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Completely true. The analogy to hydration holds, I think -- too much and too little can both be problematic. But I see seem to run into much more under-speciali
by Jeff_Brown 3y ago
Completely true. The analogy to hydration holds, I think -- too much and too little can both be problematic. But I see seem to run into much more under-specialization than over-specialization. More than 90% of the wildest successes I know went really deep on something pretty narrow.
- HPsquared 3y agoSpecialization is like putting everything on one number in roulette. It's great if you win (i.e. your specialty is in demand), but you're more likely to lose everything you invested.
- Jeff_Brown 3y agoIt is a risk, but not as bad as you suggest, because (1) in work you can get an incremental sense of what is worth specializing in, and (2) there's always some degree to which skills are transferrable and experience is impressive even to someone who doesn't need you to do what you did again.