On top of it, there's a fascinating phenomena. As I come to a con I'm also quite a generalist, as might be apparent from the topics covered in this book. I like to understand a given topic to a reasonable depth, but I don't typically enjoy diving too deep into one particular engineering topic for too long. When I read HackerNews, I have a feeling that for each of the covered topic, there are experts in the field whose mileage and experience and depth of research far far outreaches that of mine. This feeling was particularly apparent when a few blog posts of mine made it to the frontpage of HackerNews. The variety of different contexts and experience made it clear that my generalizations were based on too limited views. The same phenomena happens when my peers from engineering read some posts I wrote. They have a different experience in a different contexts, making my conclusions somehow inapplicable to their situation. The more I see these differences and the more I explore my own experiences (limited by definition), the more I think that to each topic there's much much more to be discussed than a view of one person. --- Some related reading: - [I want to lose every debate - Derek Sivers](https://sive.rs/led) -