We all have only a limited ability to handle novelty.

· Bits and Bobs 8/11/25
  • We all have only a limited ability to handle novelty.
    • Do you spread it a mile wide / inch deep, or a inch wide / mile deep?
      • Horizontal novelty vs vertical novelty.
    • For example, full stack engineers are the former.
      • They can work on any component… as long as that component is a well-paved superhighway and not anything out of the ordinary.
    • I can't handle physical novelty well at all, and invest all of my novelty tokens in intellectual novelty, which I thrive in.