How feasible is Gladwell's posited 10,000 hours to expertise? And how achievable is it to attain expertise in the rapidly changing ecosystem of high-tech software, hardware and systems where today's programming language is tomorrow's forgotten footnote in software history?
If the tools, techniques and knowledge required is constantly changing, if it becomes literally impossible to experience 10,000 hours on the latest thing, what is it that technologists are 'expert' in, if anything at all? Are we experts at being generalists?
Further reading
A Fast Track to 10,000 Hours of Practice. H. James Wilson, 2011 (HBR Blogs link)
Outliers: The Story of Success. Malcolm Gladwell, 2008. (link)
