Recommended by Nick Gales, who I suspect was interested in the topic as he and Maeve think about child-raising stuff.
Book primarily is taking a look at what's become conventional wisdom lately - the idea that focused training for a kid (10,000 hours or whatever) will yield results. Author argues that greater effectiveness is gained by folks with a broader "range". Not that we don't need the experts - we just need to recognize that - as knowledge-specialization inevitably gets deeper and deeper in each specialty area - there's more risk of tunnel vision.
Which I think we are seeing happening in the COVID-19 response (among plenty of other fails).
I liked this book, perhaps because it reinforces my priors? Could have been edited down quite a bit, however.
Tiger Woods early years compared to those of Phil Mickelson.
Interesting discussion about early specialization/focus for music students (author thinks it's overrated if not a negative).
He discussed Phil Tetlock and superforecasting - seems more bullish on all that than say twitter-tyrant Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Good examples of specialist organizations getting stuck on a project, putting it out on the web, getting useful solutions from non-specialists. Maybe it seems obvious, but I think it's widely overlooked - grabbing additional perspectives works.
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