a deep generalist is someone who discovers new niches by following their curiosity with extreme faith, and once the newly found niche is understood and its complexity exhausted, in a meta-systematic fashion, it’s time for them to move on
hermit the catx.coma deep generalist is someone who discovers new niches by following their curiosity with extreme faith, and once the newly found niche is understood and its complexity exhausted, in a meta-systematic fashion, it’s time for them to move on
Instead, especially in the early days of consulting, you’re chasing the greatest possible surface area of distinct clients in an attempt to better understand the interplay of what you’re good at, what people will pay for and who you want to be.
tomcritchlow.com • Rejecting Specialization
As one studies the lives of some renowned ‘specialists’, it appears that they often have a number of avocational pursuits (prior careers or hobbies) that in some way or another influenced – or in many cases facilitated – their main endeavour. In many cases they themselves admit to this. It is therefore worth questioning whether those we automatical
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Perhaps the most obvious of generalist characteristics is the connect-the-dots serendipity-searching that comes from linking disparate subjects together. Such cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural knitting is core to moving from incremental innovation to transcending ideation.