nlyan

Generalizing is part of how you'll be smarter later though. You cannot generalize something unless you understand its essence.

It's easy to confuse abstraction (choosing to deal with one, possibly newly contrived, concept over another) and generalization (reducing the number of concepts required to explain something to a minimum). The former is like building a Haswell CPU from a description of 70s microcontroller architecture, whereas the latter is like trying to figure out what CPUs were like in the 70s by looking at a Haswell core under a microscope.

You have that backwards. People who don't enjoy these things should go in to management