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35. David Epstein Knows Something About Almost Everything

People I (Mostly) Admire

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We've Moved Into a Period of Extreme Specialization

I think lots of people would agree that we've moved into a period of extreme specialization. And your point is that bad things happens when people are too specializing. So one explanation for why we don't see so much genius is actually the arguments you make in range. I mean, tobar inson talked about this specifically. He wrote about his concern that as physicists and scientists in general became more specialized, journals would become more remote from one another. There was wa less journal specialization when he was saying that than there is now.

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