The cost of specialization - by Lydia Nottingham - pronotre

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Epistemic status: transitional attitude Back during Inkhaven, I wrote a piece, ‘The cost of mastery’, in which I suggested people avoid mastery because it erodes freedom. When you’re more capable, the opportunity cost of making [public or private] mistakes — including working on the ‘wrong’ things — is more legible. I care about this because I care about aligning incentives. If incentives contravene publicly getting really good at your craft, we’ll get less public mastery. In this piece, I’ll talk about a couple more reasons why specializing can be psychologically hard. Then I’ll talk…

The cost of specialization - by Lydia Nottingham - pronotre

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