Adam King
Founder · Slow Traveler · Taste Maker

Defiant

Generalist

In a world of
unrealized specialists.

01 / About

Modern culture keeps pushing us towards narrow specialization. I embrace being a Generalized Specialist instead.

A Generalized Specialist builds depth in a central area of expertise while incorporating knowledge and resources from other disciplines.

Generalized Specialists are Solutionists to the core. We transform problems into opportunities by bringing together disparate elements most would never think to combine.

This allows me to spot connections others miss and create solutions that wouldn't emerge from narrowly-focused disciplines.

02 / Work
01 Company

GenZen

I run GenZen, a company dedicated to restoring human agency in this age of systematic exploitation.

As founder and chief strategist, I discover and design solutions for overlooked and underserved groups who remain frequent targets of exploitation.

We also release products and resources that further your autonomy in your current pursuits.

02 Framework

Autonomy Intelligence

Understanding how power gets systematically removed from individuals, organizations, and cultures, then engineering the restoration of that power. This is the framework GenZen applies to every opportunity and initiative.

03 / Writing
01 Perspective

The Case for the Generalized Specialist

Why depth and breadth aren't opposites — and how combining them produces solutions that pure specialists can't reach.

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04 / Now
01 Life

Since 2017, I've been slow-traveling across 19 countries so far, absorbing cultural perspectives and observing life through the lens of the perpetual foreigner.

02 Project

Developing the A.I. powered C.O.O.

03 Skill

Learning and testing A.I. assisted coding — discovering what's now possible to build when coding is no longer the barrier.