Multidisciplinary hiring requires hiring people who have already learned multiple skills (demonstrating learning capacity) rather than disciplinary specialists, because two people each knowing two skills create complementarity even without overlap

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George Church

Evidence Quote

If you have two people that each know two languages or two skills, even if they don't have anything in common, they have shown that they can learn a new skill

Source

A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George ChurchDwarkesh Patel
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:40:03 AM

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