# Modularizing ideas and specialization are the same thing Once you can draw a box around the thing you don’t need to know about things outside the box, which is exactly the intuitive definition of a specialist. [[Specialists create knowledge within fields]]. [[How Tech Loses Out over at Companies, Countries and Continents]] points out a slight difference — if you modularize within some kind of membrane it doesn’t lead to the same sort of specialization as modularizing and membraning ### Related * [[§Specialists vs. Generalists]] * [[Modularization requires legible interfaces]]