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Message: [QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5511309, member: 173"] Anyone that focuses on and succeeds at reaching a broad audience is going to be a generalist. He knows enough to talk about anything at a depth level that seems insightful to a casual audience. Its often easy for extremely knowledgeable people to rip apart a huge amount of what any generalist says, and not realize the skill set involved. Someone like Josh Pate, who is a subject matter expert on college football but probably can't talk at any depth about the NBA - has a knowledge that's about 10 square miles wide and 100 miles deep. Tony has a knowledge which is 3" deep - but its 50 million square miles wide. Two different skill sets, and usually people who get upset at either misunderstand the skill set they have. (The only time I get annoyed with a generalist is when its clear the generalist thinks his or her slight knowledge at a lot of things equates to being an expert - I don't think Tony does that). [/QUOTE]