Also, as always when reading advice, think about who's giving it. If you're writing for the masses, decrying fanciful curiosity and promoting narrow studious focus alters that fitness landscape significantly in favour of those who want to control those same masses. You don't want your workers running off to start their own enterprises, after all.
Re:Focus Is Saying No to Good Ideas
by youssefabdelm on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @10:43AM
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Excellent take that isn’t being mentioned
It's all a fitness landscape. Once you have a good signal of a steep, yet tractable curve, it's time to hone in and focus. Otherwise you need to keep exploring.
Within your exploration you need to know when to search and when to labor.
You also need to know when you've sunk too much into a fruitless endeavor.