On Opportunities At Boundaries and Intersections

The compartmentalization and specialization that defines academia is both its strength and weakness. However, weakness can be turned to opportunity if one recognizes such weakness as an opening or as a need begging to be filled. If an academic specialty, department, field of study, or discipline were to "miss" something in the area of knowledge that defines its focus, then a good candidate location to look for such a "miss" would probably be in those area that have overlap with other specialties or at boundaries not clearly defined between multiple fields of study.