We live in an age where specialization is rewarded, to the point where most people regard it as an essential component of career and life success. Some people manage to avoid specialization for a time, but eventually, the inexorable pressure to specialize finally overtakes them, and they get in line; they begin to march alongside everyone else. “That’s just how things work,” people say. And so it goes, generation after generation, each passing down its respective “wisdom” through example, culminating with the ultimate specialization at the end of a life well spent: retirement. People pay lip service to a lot [...]