Excellent point – I didn’t try that one – but I will!

That should stop the conversation stone dead.

BTW -You three should all meet for sure -you are all on the blogroll to the right.

I take it from this that it can help grow intelligence if you are aware of more nodes. That way there is a greater number of links that might be noted. I profess no expertise in brain surgery but the above definition seems to mirror the way a human beings brain grows, ie growing nodes and links with age until things wither. It seems the same goes with hyperlinking, a central design feature of the Web. Hence Google’s algorithm grapples onto those with lots of certain types of links.

Where a specialist can have an advantage is applying a studied framework to a bunch of nodes and links as a means to postulate about the universe of all or many other nodes and links.

Thus in an age of specialists who know more and more about less and less we need specialists who can also be generalists to take us somewhere towards simplicity and keeping it together with frameworks. Enough said. I second the motion, good post!

No surprise to me to find you guys on the same frequency but you’re right about the potential for annoyance. I’m sure that some of the people I work with really find the tangents inexplicable whereas I think thats my oxygen.

I like the idea that one can look down the “wrong” end of the telescope and see the wider patterns of the universe kinda like discerning fractals – although I may be underselling that one.

I’m fairly sure the “creative generalist” description may well have emerged over at idealog as well – just didn’t do that search.

Piero – I think my creative generalists would employ a polychronic approach to projects – it goes with the territory as they say in adland.

I identify strongly with your sentiments in this post. So much so that I have used the term Creative Generalist on the home page of my web site – not that I am laying claim to its invention – pretty sure I appropriated from somewhere in the blogosphere.

Good post – well said.