Context: Bruce Mau’s philosophy. People tend to design their lives and careers so that they are usually on firm, familiar turf, intellectually speaking; they go with what they know. To the extent that they learn new information, it’s usually in the form of deeper knowledge on a subject they’re already well-versed in—they increase their expertise. Mau, and many other designers, opt to go wide as well as deep. As noted in "Are You Living a T-Shaped Life?", this is what makes designers T-shaped in their knowledge, though over time, as they continually go wide and deep, wide and deep, their knowledge base becomes more like a series of T’s linked together.

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