<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">You want someone highly specialised and frankly quit Asp personality to do certain things, like for example digging around in your brain. Someone who spends lots of time think about and optimizes critical procedures before they are put into practice, like the Webb telescope.</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">At the same time you want that superfocused person to know all relevant history, a lot of unrelated but potentially useful stuff etc.</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">The optimal specialist are thus a person with needle focus on the problem and a renaissance scholarly breadth of unrelated trivia knowledge combined with a manic fountain of ideas.</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">I agree fully with Heinlein, to be able to become an expert on Foo, you need to understand all things Bar.</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">I strive my best to reach this, thus the project of the day has been to understand the defensive half roll to ground utilised by Swedish recon pilots when jumped by MIGs, (DCS world Viggen simulator helps with this) build and try a fletching jig for arrows and try out the Russian secondary draw when speedshooting arrows. </div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">And later this evening a new board game.</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">/Henrik</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in" dir="auto"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave S via extropy-chat<br><br></p></div><div dir="auto"><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…Heinlein's famous specialization quote isn't really arguing that people should be experts at everything and that there's no need for working experts in many fields.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Did you mean his “Specialization is for insects” crack?</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://reason.com/2020/02/29/specialization-is-for-insects/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://reason.com/2020/02/29/specialization-is-for-insects/</a></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">There’s plenty to be said for increasing specialization as well.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Obviously. One wouldn't want their neighbor the salesman to do their brain surgery.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>
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