Recently, I’ve felt a bit lost about where to go in my career. I pride myself as a generalist and love to explore new domains and I felt like web/backend didn’t have anything new to offer. I’ve been wondering how specialists found their domain and what types of profiles exist in the wild. We value “T-shaped” people. That is, people who are both generalists (highly skilled at a broad set of valuable things—the top of the T) and also experts (among the best in their field within a n...
