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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Many great thinkers are (or were) generalizing specialists. Shakespeare, Da Vinci, Kepler, and Boyd excelled by branching out from their core competencies. These men knew how to learn fast, picking up the key ideas and then returning to their specialties. Unlike their forgotten peers, they didn’t continue studying one area past the point of diminis... See more
Shane Parrish • The Generalized Specialist: How Shakespeare, Da Vinci, and Kepler Excelled
ut working this way, I feel better-equipped to make progress on my ideas than I have in quite some time. Single-user experiments like this emphasize problem- finding and discovery, not precise evaluation. In fact, my work with one student uncovered a startling hypothesis that consumed much of my year: what seems like a problem of forgetting is some... See more
Andy Matuschak • In praise of the particular, and other lessons from 2023
unwise to seek rudimentary instruction from the most eminent experts,
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
how the mind of a great intuitionist such as Feynman operated. He, too, focused on principles first, building off examples that cut straight to the heart of what the problem represented rather than focusing on superficial features. His ability to do this was also built off an impressive library of stored physics and math patterns. His mental calcul
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