Range vs Specialisation
A room from Airchat's 2023 version, recorded as a video. The room's name is the title; the transcript below follows the video, and every time in it plays the video from that point.
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0:00 If you put in too many specialists with a similar kind of a background, you usually start to get similar kind of solutions and things become impossible because there is no range. So if you throw in people with different backgrounds, experiences, and they may be even not specialists in the field, but they have other qualities which can improve and contribute, you may start to get silly questions, really basic questions, which are really fundamental. And this may lead to new discoveries, opportunities, possibilities, unlocking the impossible to become possible. And this is really nice. And this is what I mostly described in the book, if I remember correctly. To answer your question, based on the book Reigns, I think you need both.
0:51 You need to be a specialist, really good hands-on on things. But it also helps that if you can jump around topics, you can find pattern recognition by doing different things. And in this way, if something becomes replaced by AI or some other technology or something happens in that field... ...or something happens in that field... ...you're not stuck in that one. You can also switch to other ones. And probably also it keeps your life interesting if you can switch between things. And so the multimodal way of doing things, I think, probably is the best if that fits your personality and type.