What is an Expert? - by Otakar G. Hubschmann
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When you become sufficiently expert in the state of the art, you stop picking ideas at random. You are thoughtful in how to select ideas and how to combine ideas. You are thoughtful about when you should be generating many ideas versus pruning down ideas.
Im a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. That’s considered near expert or, in obfuscated business speak, expert-adjacent. Brown is the belt before black.
I routinely receive beat downs from good black belts. At no point in the rolls are they in any danger of me submitting them. That’s the proof that I’m not yet an expert.
