Boiling The Ocean

As you may have noticed, we like to challenge conventional wisdom here at BTO. Today, we explore the notion of expertise and discuss the limits of specialized knowledge. Now to be clear, we don’t mean to suggest that you don’t want an expert when someone is performing neurosurgery on you. It’s just that the idea of expertise has to evolve in the modern era. Expertise is perishable. As an asset, it depreciates more quickly now than ever before. How much of what you learned in high school and university is still relevant to your work today? Thought so. Us too. Expertise ain’t what it used to be. It’s more fragile but thankfully it’s also more easily achieved. In fact, it’s never been easier to become an expert in something. We have access to the world’s information in our pockets, some of the best professors and programs on the internet - often for free - and new fields and job titles are being invented all around us. So there are exciting opportunities but also risks - and we’ll try to explore them all, as w