Exploring broadly across various activities or intellectual pursuits (range) can enhance expertise, and the 'top of the T' (broad reading/exposure) is important, but the 'stem of the T' (focused specialization) is crucial as a precursor for the broad range to matter.

“This reminds me a little bit of um like David Epstein and some of his work on range and you know like uh exploring broadly and how that having a range of either uh sports activities or intellectual pursuits can make you better. They a lot of times they say experts are T-shaped right they have they broad they read broadly but then they have a narrow vertical where they're they uh specialize. Um and the big takeaway that people have from this a lot is that it's the top of the tea that really matters. I need to read w more widely. I need to look, you know, around the world and expose myself to lots of things. But I actually think the stem of the tea is incredibly important. It is the it is the precursor to the top of it mattering at all.”