Unfair advantages

• importing ideas
• immunity of entrenchment
• Owning your intersections

Pour ne pas être juste "un collecteur"

• finir quelque chose de signitificatif
• rotation : suivre un intérêt par saison plutôt que tout en même temps
• construire les ponts de manière délibérée entre mes intérêts. Quand j'apprends qqchose dans un domaine, me poser délibérément la question : "Ou est-ce que ça s'applique aussi?"

Research referenced:

• Robert & Michele Root-Bernstein — biographical study of Nobel laureates' engagement in serious outside pursuits (art, music, writing, crafts)
• Erik Dane (Academy of Management Review) — cognitive entrenchment, how deep expertise hardens into rigidity
• Arne Güllich, Brooke Macnamara & David Hambrick (2022) — meta-analysis of 6,000+ athletes on sampling vs. early specialization
• Far transfer — the psychological mechanism of applying patterns learned in one domain to solve problems in another

I often daydream about the lives of people who picked up C just at this perfect time, right at the start.
After they learned this relatively small language, they could then have spent DECADES writing JUST C, one language for all programs, on all devices.
I wonder if you can see where I'm going with this?