Kyle Harrison
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Jack of All Trades, Master of None
Jack of All Trades, Master of None
A proverb about the tradeoff between breadth and depth of expertise. In Charlie Munger — A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom, Munger inverts the usual lesson: he argues that, like animals flourishing in ecological niches, people who narrowly specialize can get “terribly good” at occupying a little niche and capture economics that generalists never reach.
Where this appears
- Charlie Munger — A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom — Munger’s niche/specialization argument, framed against the conventional warning of being a generalist.