The skills you will accumulate over the years are analogous to the way the wizard’s spellbook works in dnd.
There’s a lot you can do, but the the perishable skills need practice, and that practice comes at a cost. So you have a giant library of various books, and when you want to do something you haven’t done in a while, you need to spend some time getting everything prepped. Sometimes a piece of capital equipment with high maintenance costs is needed, sometimes there are expensive tools needed.
The alternative might be to hyperspecialize in one specifically topic that you’re sure nobody else cares much about, and develop a large social network of people who similarly specialize. If you have a task that requires specialist knowledge of two disciplines, it’s hard for me to tell if you win by having two specialists who learn to work together, or having two generalists who cross train in both, but not as deeply.
The skills you will accumulate over the years are analogous to the way the wizard’s spellbook works in dnd.
There’s a lot you can do, but the the perishable skills need practice, and that practice comes at a cost. So you have a giant library of various books, and when you want to do something you haven’t done in a while, you need to spend some time getting everything prepped. Sometimes a piece of capital equipment with high maintenance costs is needed, sometimes there are expensive tools needed.
The alternative might be to hyperspecialize in one specifically topic that you’re sure nobody else cares much about, and develop a large social network of people who similarly specialize. If you have a task that requires specialist knowledge of two disciplines, it’s hard for me to tell if you win by having two specialists who learn to work together, or having two generalists who cross train in both, but not as deeply.