# T-Shaped Individuals Idea originally from Valve? Of people with deep experience in one domain but shallow experience in other domains. If a polymath is someone who has made significant contributions to multiple fields (per [[The Polymath]] and [[Why some people are impossibly talented - article]] you could say that a polymath is a T shaped individual ### Related * [[§Specialists vs. Generalists]]  * From [[bushPiecesAction1970]] <!-- #mental-model --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/T-Shaped+Individuals) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/T-Shaped+Individuals)