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The Expert Life

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Faith in improvisation vs outsourcing for cheat codes.

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Jan 16, 2022
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A jack of all trades
Is master of none
But oftentimes better
Than a master of one.

Once upon a time I lost a job by telling one of the many of several people assigned to interview me that I wasn’t particularly interested in learning more. This was a job related to IT in which I had been a practitioner for over two decades. I was highly disappointed that my …

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