I am not a dev! I found this post on the front page.

Something that crosses my mind is the benefit specialization brings to the species in a super-wide spectrum.

I am very interested in cutting edge exercise science as it relates to my work (physical/performing arts). If we were not so specialized across a wide spectrum, professional athleticism, potential later-career applications of that athleticism, and even adjacent fields of study of the human body to develop new perspectives of exercise science would (potentially) not exist.

IMO, new perspectives in exercise science lead to better conclusions about what is physical health, which benefit every body!

Not sure if that helps your problem! Just something I’ve realized - my work benefits greatly from an ecosystem of great athleticism and scientific study of the mechanisms of the human body - neither of those two fields I could fully investigate alone.

As far as my application, I like working on “what’s new” as an artist but in the arts if you don’t understand, appreciate and STUDY the canon of what exists you can get lost. IME, even when working on what’s new you end up iterating a lot on what exists - celebrating what works and iterating on or tinkering with what doesn’t. So I think I would say somewhere between A and B for me, and I’m going to vote B because I imagine that’s an option that’s not going to get a lot of love :)