completely agree with this take - as Heilein famously said “specialization is for insects.” Many of the greats throughout history have been generalists or “renaissance men”. The age of the generalist swiftly approaches
“The society that separates its scholars from its soldiers will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”
-Thucydides
Thucydides was the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War AND a general for the Athenians. He embodied the quote in his life to the point that his reputation as a general AND scholar precede…
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