Could you talk about this more? I'm horribly insecure about being a generalist. Is that what you're talking about?
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to me being a generalist means having ability to quickly make yourself knowledgeable and effective at arbitrary disciplines
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being able to build a graph of knowledge linking seemingly disparate concepts in a mutually reinforcing way
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it seems to get easier over time too, a lot of things I pick up now relate coherently to so much I already have
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this is a skill that very few people possess and it is one of the most important to have imo
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good specialists are useful subordinates but not much for pursuing goals on their own. academia caters to this type
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much more common are bad specialists, people who are aren't especially bright and compensate by carving out a tiny niche
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so they obsessively learn about all the silly minutia of their chosen thing over the course of literally years
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It's a shame I've only seen a handful of job ads ever that aren't for hyperspecialists.
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And hiring is rotten with job openings for hyperspecialists only. Unfortunately, upcoming programmers see the demand, and aim to supply.
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Look guys I've got all these binary trees and they're not just going to invert themselves
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Job Description: Spend your days solving CS algorithm problems on a whiteboard instead of a computer, with no access to resources.
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Must perform well under constant hypercritical scrutiny and with zero peer support.
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It's simpler than that - few people have the capacity for truly independent though away from the herd. SV full of earnest berniebros
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I believe there are bubbles. Certain certs have bubbles. Like Cisco. Cisco work is a dime a dozen out there. not high paying
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