The saying actually goes ‘jack of all trades and a master of none, though oft better than a master of one’.
There are quite a few insights and improvements that are obvious with cross-domain expertise, and much of the new developments nowadays pretty much are merging of two or more knowledge domains—bioinformatics as a single, but not nearly only example. Computational linguistics, for example—there are quite a few treatises on semantics written by linguists that would be insightful and new for computer science guys handling also non-linguistic knowledge/semantics projects.
The saying actually goes ‘jack of all trades and a master of none, though oft better than a master of one’.
There are quite a few insights and improvements that are obvious with cross-domain expertise, and much of the new developments nowadays pretty much are merging of two or more knowledge domains—bioinformatics as a single, but not nearly only example. Computational linguistics, for example—there are quite a few treatises on semantics written by linguists that would be insightful and new for computer science guys handling also non-linguistic knowledge/semantics projects.