[FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

[glen ☣]

Yes, I would make the assumption you reject.  But Marcus probably agrees with you, hence his picking at the self-interested fiefdom-building issue.  Since I generally believe people try to do their best, any polymath not committed to their org would work their way out of that org as soon as feasible.  People are people, though, and experience forcing contexts on a regular basis.  So, it's obviously not binary.

Perhaps this is one place age (and other things like family) plays a significant role.  I'm not a polymath.  But when I was younger, I worked in places where I willingly devoted myself to a few (different, time-sliced) roles, working 60-80 hour weeks.  I'll never (be able to or want to) do that again.  If I'd had kids or hobbies, I wouldn't have done it then, either.

On 03/16/2017 02:25 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> I think this is a reasonable model, however, I think I attribute another quality to polymaths than has been alluded to here.   I've rarely found someone I consider a true polymath to be tractable to the organizations goals... they tend to use their high-bandwidth broad-spectrum abilities to keep their organizations happy (enough) with them, but in my experience, they rarely harness their full skills to the organization they work for.   I don't judge that as bad, but it makes me suspect that the discussion here assumes that a polymath will actually be contributing to their full ability to the organization they work for.

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☣ glen