Most good engineers I worked with had a common trait - they just happened to know a lot of random stuff, facts, and practices at the surface level while being pro at a few ⚡ The conversations with them were always fun and insightful as they kept telling and sharing interesting nuggets. Although they were not an expert in those, they did have a primitive idea and understanding of what they were talking about.
There is a saying that goes : Jack of All trades and King of none. We all arrive at this place at some time… either we know something very deep or we know just enough to get things done. In my early career I strived too much to be an expert and don’t even bother to learn something that was slightly off from my expert domain but then one of my director gave me this golden advice : We have too many experts but we have lack of generalist… I want you to become one… That opened me a different perspective of this King of none category. That’s when I realized this world do need generalist especially for cases where you don’t have experts any more and if industry were too much dependent on experts, it is not sustainable. Great article I really enjoyed, Arpit
There is a saying that goes : Jack of All trades and King of none. We all arrive at this place at some time… either we know something very deep or we know just enough to get things done. In my early career I strived too much to be an expert and don’t even bother to learn something that was slightly off from my expert domain but then one of my director gave me this golden advice : We have too many experts but we have lack of generalist… I want you to become one… That opened me a different perspective of this King of none category. That’s when I realized this world do need generalist especially for cases where you don’t have experts any more and if industry were too much dependent on experts, it is not sustainable. Great article I really enjoyed, Arpit