Expertise

Due to the hyper-availability of information, generality must be practiced. The benefits of expertise, although easily reaped, are hardly economical. The primary product of specialization is waste. It may, in that sense be beneficial to strive to be an expert in vaguery; understanding the principles and practices of specialization, but unbound by precisions high demands. Understanding the "why" then becomes more valuable then the "what". This is a debate to be fought by engineers and philosophers. I am not about to try and suggest that specialization is wholly unnecessary, quite the contrary, merely that, having missed the boat myself on expertise, I must instead strive to understand.