I spent a long time spinning my wheels calculating the “scenarios i’d most like to mitigate” and the “1-3 potentially most effective interventions” before noticing that not specializing was slowly killing me. Agree that this is the hard part, but a current guess of mine is that at least some people should do the 80⁄20 by identifying a top 5 then throwing dice.
I have to make a post about specialization, the value it adds to your life independent of the choice of what to specialize in, etc.
Looking forward to reading this in the future! I’d like to add though that some people really enjoy being generalists, wearers of many hats, and Jacks of all trades, ready to switch tasks/projects/cause areas if priorities seem to change.
I spent a long time spinning my wheels calculating the “scenarios i’d most like to mitigate” and the “1-3 potentially most effective interventions” before noticing that not specializing was slowly killing me. Agree that this is the hard part, but a current guess of mine is that at least some people should do the 80⁄20 by identifying a top 5 then throwing dice.
I have to make a post about specialization, the value it adds to your life independent of the choice of what to specialize in, etc.
Looking forward to reading this in the future! I’d like to add though that some people really enjoy being generalists, wearers of many hats, and Jacks of all trades, ready to switch tasks/projects/cause areas if priorities seem to change.