Hybrid thinking
The case for the hybrid
The problem with deep specialization is that specialists tend to get stuck in their own points of view. They’ve been taught to focus so narrowly that they can’t look at a problem from different angles. And in the modern workspace we desperately need people with the ability to see big picture solutions.” https://hbr.org/2012/05/in-defense-of-polymaths
Talent
I have a theory that nobody understands talent any more than we understand electricity. So I think we’ve done a real disservice to young people by telling them, “Oh, you be careful. You’ll be a jack-of-all-trades and a master of none.” It’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/growing-up-maya-angelou-79582387/
Polymaths
What polymaths realize by studying the different branches is that many of them have the same foundation, and if this foundation is deeply understood then all they need to do is apply that ingrained knowledge to a different context rather than do the work of surface-level specialization” The Future and Polymaths
The Generalist
If being a generalist was the path to mediocrity, why did the most comprehensive study of the most significant scientists in all of history uncover that 15 of the 20 were polymaths? Newton. Galileo. Aristotle. Kepler. Descartes. Huygens. Laplace. Faraday. Pasteur. Ptolemy. Hooke. Leibniz. Euler. Darwin. Maxwell — all polymaths.” https://observer.com/2018/05/people-with-too-many-interests-more-likely-successful-polymath-entrepreneurship-antifragile/
Design &
Chipchase
She then uses the airtime for her phone and completes the transaction by giving the man’s mother the money, minus a small commission. “It’s a rather ingenious practice,” Chipchase says, “an example of grass-roots innovation, in which people create new uses for technology based on need.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13anthropology-t.htm
Writing
This is perhaps design’s integral role: to help define narrative. I’ve often heard designers refer to themselves as “storytellers”; let’s not forget that the best storytellers have a way with words.”
https://design.blog/2017/03/16/fatimah-kabba-on-the-other-unicorn-skill-writing/
Business
Economics
“Digital design is just behavioral economics with a presentation layer.”
Growth
“we ought to focus on promoting creativity and drive as a means to propel growth.”
Technology
“An inversion of nature: how air conditioning created the modern city”
Jurassic Technology
“when I process this place, I tend to think of it as performance art, one that includes you and your response to it as part of the performance. It is a constantly-in-process work of art.” – Museum of Jurassic Technology
In soccer first you learn levitation, then telepathy 