Add expert generalists

README.md

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   - Make debugging easier
   - When working on a team, you should usually ask the question
   - Shipping cadence matters a lot. Think hard about what will get you shipping quickly and often
+- [Expert Generalists](https://martinfowler.com/articles/expert-generalist.html), martinfowler.com, proposes an interesting take on the "T-shaped engineer"
+  - The Characteristics of an Expert Generalist: Curiosity, Collaborativeness, Customer Focus, Favor Fundamental Knowledge, Blend of Generalist and Specialist Skills, Sympathy for Related Domains
+  - Assessing Expert Generalists: hiring and career progression
+  - Growing Expert Generalists: From Tools to Fundamentals
+    - "Why does our attention keep drifting toward tool expertise? It isn't because people are shortsighted or lazy; it's because the fundamentals are hard to see amid the noise."
+  - Expert Generalists still need Specialists
+  - Expert Generalists in the Age of LLMs
+    - "Similarly to a specialist, an LLM can rapidly answer questions that an Expert Generalist will have when working in a new domain."
+    - "Rather than looking for “the answer”, they prompt them to generate questions, explaining mechanisms, and providing examples and even tools that help explore the underlying mechanisms of an idea."
 
 ## Other general material and list of resources
 
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 - [A list of programming playgrounds](https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/04/17/a-list-of-programming-playgrounds/), Julia Evans
 - [Write more "useless" software](https://ntietz.com/blog/write-more-useless-software/)
 - [SadServers - Linux & DevOps Troubleshooting Interviews](https://sadservers.com/)
+- [Writing Toy Software Is A Joy](https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joy)
 
 Practice:
 
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   - I am seeing evidence that people taught knowledge management for its own sake produce unexciting work.
 - [MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners](https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners)
 - [Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good.](https://www.reproof.app/blog/notes-apps-help-us-forget)
+- [I Deleted My Second Brain](https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain)
 
 ### Personal productivity
 
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   - There was an interesting contrarian take in the [Hacker News thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36011599): "Once I relaxed and decided, 'If the stuff in this book is good enough, my brain will keep it FOR me' both my satisfaction AND utility of books increased dramatically."
 - [You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It](https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/you-are-what-you-read/)
   - "I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.", Ralp Waldo Emerson
+- [How I Read](https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/how-i-read)
+  - I read pretty slowly. I take notes, I underline, I highlight, I jot my thoughts in the margins, I pause if I encounter an especially interesting passage or idea.
+  - "Listening to books instead of reading them is like drinking your vegetables instead of eating them"
+  - “You will not learn anything of lasting importance from TV, movies, podcasts…they’re junk food. Successful people converge on 3 ways to learn: lots of reading time, some exercises and projects, and conversations with people who are slightly ahead of them.”
+
 
 ### Refactoring