july

So — in many ways you can be quite skilled and very knowledgeable in one arena, and have little to if not absolute deficiency in another area. People also assume that as you become more successful that you are quite balanced in many arenas, and I think this is absolutely not the case

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

In many ways what’s really cool is that they follow their interests regardless of what is in vogue or what others say and I think that’s pretty cool - often these different interest lead them to different paths

So, these unexpected domains and plateaus that would not have existed had they not followed and connected two areas of their interests that would otherwise never had any cross pollination

And the best part is they aren’t even trying to cross pollinate or be inter disciplinary or whatever they are just themselves and if anything they are just expressing who they are and honestly I think that is rad / if you’re doing that good job and if you’re not alive any more I think you did a great job

One of the hallmarks of people that “I find to be cool” (solely opinion is my own) is this ability to transverse different domains, in a generally unpredictable (or unexpected) often because they follow their interests and these different facets of themselves are expressed without judgement across different domains

I call it allocating skill points to X area with less points to Y area lol

Have you read David Epstein’s Range?

It was very interesting and helpful to hear there’s some good that can come with being a generalist.

You make me think about the narrative of “connect with more people” - “explore channels” - “engage with people with different interests”

i like to see it more as the ability to more easily master another because the struggles of the first are already experienced