I worry that the norm is moving more towards specialist and away from generalist. Things have been pretty stable for a while. And people who invest ridiculous amounts of energy in stuff like the stock market or social media tend to get serious returns.

Those are not truly useful skills anywhere except this one ecosystem.

This could be because Of the relative concentration of these ideas.

We’re at the stock market has gotten competition from cryptocurrency’s, and social media becomes less service oriented and more of a layer.

Sort of like photoshop enthusiasts knew about and admired skill in the tool but the public generally had little familiarity.

As photo manipulation became common “photoshopped” as an idea was more commonly understood.