☞ Outlier Roles in Venture Capital (and other Organizations)

“high tolerance for ambiguity”; “systems thinkers”; “additional technical knowledge from peripheral domains”; “repurposing what is already available”; “adept at using analogous domains for finding inputs to the invention process”; “ability to connect disparate pieces of information in new ways”; “synthesizing information from many different sources

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A lot of very smart people work in strange ways / with a lot of quirks (e.g. contemplating for hours and appearing to do nothing, while then suddenly having 100x output burst). This usually makes them not a great fit for traditional corporate world, where you often have to fake…

"...making noise on purpose can jolt a system out of its rut." During times of disruption, generalists often adapt to emerging conditions faster than their specialist neighbors.