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Specialization

Nitzan Hermon
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Specialization is the worst thing you can do for your career.

Computational thinking is the default mode when we cannot connect to the reason (meaning/value) behind our work.

Machines specialize, but computers are not the only systems that optimize. Before a robot can become autonomous, the people around it must systematize

themselves.

Computational thinking organizes the world in a set of pseudo-objective jigs, an orchestra of good-enoughs, train trucks for ideas, in a way that can never lead or respond to opportunities.

All computational thinking will inevitably be done better by computers. When it will happen depends on the direction you’re going.

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