Comments on: Expertise is Overrated http://crastinate.com/2008/10/27/expertise-is-overrated/ A Blog by Ely Rosenstock Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:26:33 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Spencer Buchanan http://crastinate.com/2008/10/27/expertise-is-overrated/comment-page-1/#comment-396 Spencer Buchanan Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:36:55 +0000 http://crastinate.wordpress.com/?p=213#comment-396 I think this is an interesting point. How is it, that being specialized has become such a bad thing? Doctors specialize very specific to something like the nose or colon and can have a long lasting career. But since they have not figured out a robot to... clean your colon, that man is safe. but as technology advances almost any job is not safe if that is all you can do. However being a technological renaissance man is hard to pull off, because most businesses I have seen are not interested in hiring someone that knows a lot, but expert in none. FOr something like website design, there is new tricks of the trade that happen every year, that if you are still charging customers designs you make in Front page, you will lose your job fast, though you may be an expert in that. Maybe it is okay to specialize, but understanding and learning the newest and greatest tools in your field will help you figure out how to use what you learned with earlier tools.Managing manufacturing is of course very outdated, but what has that evolved to? I am in an art major right now and if we just sculpted figures out of marble all day we would never cut it in the real world. Not specializing in anything but contemporary trends seems to be what has helped me keep afloat. Now keeping ahead of the curve, is what I need to figure out next! I think this is an interesting point. How is it, that being specialized has become such a bad thing? Doctors specialize very specific to something like the nose or colon and can have a long lasting career. But since they have not figured out a robot to… clean your colon, that man is safe. but as technology advances almost any job is not safe if that is all you can do. However being a technological renaissance man is hard to pull off, because most businesses I have seen are not interested in hiring someone that knows a lot, but expert in none.

FOr something like website design, there is new tricks of the trade that happen every year, that if you are still charging customers designs you make in Front page, you will lose your job fast, though you may be an expert in that.

Maybe it is okay to specialize, but understanding and learning the newest and greatest tools in your field will help you figure out how to use what you learned with earlier tools.Managing manufacturing is of course very outdated, but what has that evolved to?

I am in an art major right now and if we just sculpted figures out of marble all day we would never cut it in the real world. Not specializing in anything but contemporary trends seems to be what has helped me keep afloat. Now keeping ahead of the curve, is what I need to figure out next!

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