(2) Generalists end up with better " match quality." What he doesn't seem to notice is that these two reasons imply contradictory prescriptions on how to live.
One star innovator even descries the inflection point, telling Epstein that " specialists specifically peaked about 1985." Well, that's one line of argument in favor of being a generalist.
But what I learned to do was to hire generalists, to hire people who learned fast, to hire people who were flexible because you were highly likely to pivot in what you were doing. So that was one lesson.