specialisation

That's why you have specialisation, I won't play basketball and it is unlikely there is a Dutch jockey.

Mmmm... pretty sure Adam Smith was on the money when he talked about division of labour and increasing specialisation, in 1776.

The internet is creating more specialisation in commerce overall, not reducing it.

" Some of that is indebted to specialisation, not just the fact that it's a service company, of course.- But it's a lot easier to do specialised stuff this way.

Yep, a short list of useful one-liners would go a long way. Often, your use-case will be a straight specialisation of one of the examples, and if not, chances are you can cobble together something from several examples.

Someone a thousand years ago would have dictated to his scribe the following:"Having everyone knowing how to read and write is the opposite of specialisation.

", and kept adding more perfectly reasonable individual requests to the syntax like template specialisation.

I've had numerous occasions where I've tried to get anyone on the product team for my specialisation at Microsoft, that my company literally drops millions of pounds on to pay any attention to our requirements.

It's a several orders of magnitude improvement in the population density an area can support, which makes population centres possible, which makes specialisation viable, which makes everything else possible.

Of course specialisation allows you to negotiate up your salary, so you can offset the loss of freedom in choosing the location of your workplace with an increase in freedom of choosing the location of your house / apartment due to a higher salary.

Illiterate societies are unable to progress past agrarian economies because illiteracy precludes specialisation, prevents the dissemination of knowledge, and makes it almost impossible to learn new things except by imitation or direct instruction.