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The responses here make me question the Heinlein ‘competent man’ trope (‘specialization is for insects’)
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What is the most detail-oriented activity you enjoy? Where there’s a huge number of details to get right and you just have to patiently work through all of them, and you either genuinely enjoy it or it feels like a soul-crushing grind?
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Heinlein wrote about hyper competent generalists. Of course they would say that. Heinlein himself was specialized in writing science fiction, even if he doesn’t want to admit it.