“Spotting connections across disparate fields” as a default, signature intellectual style is:
— Charming/precocious sign of imagination in your 20s
— A workhorse “visionary” playbook in your 30s
— The mark of a dilettante has-been in your 40s
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That's not necessarily a foxy style actually. Foxy = pointillist more than connectionist.
Not hedge-hog-y either, so maybe fox/hedgehog isn't as great a distinction as it's cracked up to be. If the point of the distinction is to say the best thinkers have the flexibility to be both (kind of like knowing how to turn right AND how to turn left), then I like it better.
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