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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