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Grzegorz Kieszkowski's avatar

This is the topic that is in my mind since few weeks and I am starting to see a lit of advantages of being a generalist

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

I often compare specialization in terms of the limiting behavior of the Dirac delta function: The specialist is someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing, while a generalist is someone who knows less and less about more and more until they know nothing about everything. In either case the function integrates to unity. Teams are logically sensible as organizational entities but have lately become panaceas for rigid dogmatic managers. Being a team player is not always the best way.

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