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35. David Epstein Knows Something About Almost Everything

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Generalists and Specialists in Patent Research

"We absolutely need generalists and specialists. But i guess the problem is that, because knowledge has progressed so far, we've dug those trenches deeper and deeper," he says. "There's a lot more economic for me to learn to get to the cutting edge than there would have been for some one in 18 70."

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