Rowson draws a clean distinction: stable environments reward deep specialization because the rules are known, but periods of flux invert the calculus. When the terrain itself is shifting, synthesis—connecting ideas across domains—becomes more valuable than precision within a single domain. The expert generalist is his term for someone who takes this synthesizing skill seriously enough to demand institutional respect for it.
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