Breadth is easy to misread.
Without explanation, it can look like distraction, inconsistency, or an inability to commit. With a clear through-line, it can look like what it often actually is: repeated study of systems through different substrates.
The MOMC material keeps returning to the same corrective move. Do not present breadth as a random pile of interests. Present the pattern that connects them.
That pattern might be:
- learning how systems work
- moving across domains without losing structural understanding
- building judgment through comparison
- developing the ability to translate between specialists
The breadth itself is not the message. The signal is what the breadth makes possible.
That is a useful note not only for public writing, but for self-understanding too. People often become more coherent when they name the pattern already present in their own path.