Re:Ask HN: Learning multiple languages vs. mastering one
by icc97 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @08:06AM
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I'd been hunting for this 'paint drip skills' for a while now. I finally found it again. It's from Kent Beck [0] (plus HN thread [1]) where as I kept on assuming it was from Paul Graham.
[0]: https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/paint-drip-people/1...
In relation to the OP then, being a master of an area is valuable, but so is knowledge of a few others in some depth and a lot of other areas at a much shallower depth.