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It'll depend upon what everyone else is doing, too. When everyone else is in "spray and pray" mode, it behooves you to go deep and build expertise, because then the depth of your knowledge really makes you stand out in the crowd. When everybody else is going deep and specializing, it behooves you to explore a lot of shallow ideas, because there is probably some low-hanging fruit that someone else is missing.


Which mode are you in now? If it's one of these two, what are you learning?




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