Pras Sarkar (of Yahoo! Research) advises the following tips on

how to do this most effectively:

• Stay up-to-date with your area of generalization

• Know what to explore and what to ignore

• Be critical of new technologies

• Visualize the results of all new pursuits and endeavors

• Don’t over-generalize

via The Creative Generalist; full original article here. There is a good post on this topic over at Wishful Thinking. Image copyright Dave Gray and held here.

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