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knows a little about everything, enough to ask the question the specialist forgot.
means someone with broad competence across many fields instead of deep mastery of one, valuable for connecting dots specialists can't see.
from from latin generalis, general, pertaining to the whole; the term rose in contrast to specialist as work fragmented during industrialization, becoming a badge of honor again in the internet age of polymaths.
biology termoriginally described species that thrive in varied habitats, like raccoons
career comebacktech and startups now prize generalists over narrow specialists
fox vs hedgehogberlin's essay cast generalists as foxes, knowing many small things