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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein · 2019 · 352 pages

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Rakhim Davletkaliyev loved it
A compelling overview of research concerned with performance of generalists — those people who, despite the common wisdowm, are not trying to become niche specialists. This book is so damn interesting! The author relentlessly describes history, modern research, observations and statistics, while maintaining an aproachable and geniounely curiosity-endusing style.

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.