You may want to clarify that when you say things like:
“As an autodidact who now consumes whole fields of knowledge in mere weeks”
People might take it out of context :)
Division of labor is all well and good, but if you’ve spent much time around others in a business you soon realise that it isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. There’s a reason why so many of histories prolific inventors had an enormous array of skills in many different areas: because the only person you can really count on to be there is yourself. Employees and colleagues come and go, the only constant is you.
You may want to clarify that when you say things like:
“As an autodidact who now consumes whole fields of knowledge in mere weeks”
People might take it out of context :)
Division of labor is all well and good, but if you’ve spent much time around others in a business you soon realise that it isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. There’s a reason why so many of histories prolific inventors had an enormous array of skills in many different areas: because the only person you can really count on to be there is yourself. Employees and colleagues come and go, the only constant is you.
I also read this in a way that for a whole minute made me despair at my knowledge-acquisition abilities.