the age of the generalist is coming back

for decades we were told to specialize. pick one thing, go deep, become the expert. that advice made sense when information was scarce and tools were limited.

but something shifted. marc andreessen just said founders will need skills across 6-8 fields going forward. not because expertise doesn't matter... it still does. but because ai tools now let you operate at a competent level across domains you'd never have time to master alone.

think about it. the most interesting people in bitcoin weren't pure coders or pure economists. they were the weird ones who understood game theory AND cryptography AND austrian economics AND network effects. generalists who could see how the pieces fit together when specialists were still arguing about their corners.

the same thing is happening with ai. the breakthroughs aren't coming from people who only know machine learning. they're coming from people who can connect ml to biology, to physics, to economics, to human behavior.

specialists build the tools. generalists see where they fit.

long term this changes everything about how we think about education, hiring, and what "expertise" even means. are we raising a generation of narrow specialists for a world that's about to reward synthesis and breadth?

what skills are you combining that nobody else is?