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.

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