Thinking: The leaders who run Silicon Valley, while focused, tend to be generalists. They're T-shaped, but not *the* domain expert. If true, why don't specialists run SV? Maybe: generalists can convene across disciplines & networks—bridging capital, talent, & opportunity.
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He certainly did get a lot from his breadth of interests. Eg his strength as a mathematician helped in general relativity. But there's a letter somewhere where Hilbert laments that "every boy in Goettingen" (roughly) knew more about the mathematics than E, but E discovered GR
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So, at least as I'd use the term, he was a mind-bogglingly talented specialist who benefited a lot from having other interests at which he was pretty darned good, but certainly not nearly the best in the world.
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