Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

The Dawn of the Neo-Generalist

Our Journey into Specialization and Back Again

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Matt McDonagh
Jun 06, 2025
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My career started on Wall Street, first in investment banking and later as a co-founder of a hedge fund. It was the epitome of a specialist’s world.

We lived and breathed financial models, risk arbitrage, and market minutiae. We were trained to be experts in a very narrow, very deep sliver of the universe: the movement of capital.

For a time, it was int…

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