Create Divergence

Create Fragility

Create Friction Across Generations

Reduce Optionality

specialization

is a narrow professional excellence attained by the use of intellectual blinders.

A narrow professional excellence attained by the use of intellectual blinders; obsession made profitable.

's cost is that architects build to impress other architects, academics write to impress other academics . . .

The costs of specialization: architects build to impress other architects; models are thin to impress other models; academics write to impress other academics; lmmakers try to impress other lmmakers; painters impress art dealers; but authors who write to impress book editors tend to fail.

is the ability to focus all your energies on one thing.

The ability to focus all your energies on one thing.

specialization, n.Definitions

specialization