HUMAN CONNECTIONS1452–1519
Leonardo da Vinci
Drawing to understand what cannot yet be seen.
POLYMATHY IN THE AGE OF AI
The newRenaissanceis here.
AI is expanding what one person can learn, connect, and build. Your multiple interests could become your next advantage.
For the walking paradoxes of our time.
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FIG. 001 / HOMO UNIVERSALISHUMAN POTENTIAL, EXPANDED.
01 /A CHANGE IN PERSPECTIVE
What looked like distraction could become an advantage.
You were told to pick one thing. Find your specialty and leave the rest for later. Yet your interests kept finding each other, even when nobody else could see the connection.
Now you have more tools to follow those connections. Curiosity has more room to act. Depth and judgment turn that possibility into capability.
This is our thesis02 /IDEAS TO BEGIN WITH
FOUNDATIONAL READINGS / 01—03THE THESISMMXXVI
The new Renaissance is human.
What changes when one person can take their ideas further.
Read the essay
THE CONCEPTMMXXVI
Value lives at the intersection.
Breadth, depth, and integration. A way to understand polymathy.
Explore the concept
THE PRACTICEMMXXVI
Give your curiosity a form.
A method for turning a question into a connection you can put to the test.
Explore the method
03 /A LABORATORY OF POSSIBILITIES
The advantage is in
what you connect.
Two disciplines. A different question. Explore an intersection and find a first idea to take into the real world.
A POSSIBLE PROJECT
Design an experience that helps people make better decisions.
HOW TO PUT IT TO THE TEST
Build two versions of an everyday decision. Observe what a person understands in each and what changes in their choice.
Exploratory ideas, not research findings. Each connection earns its value through practice.
04 /THE POLYMATH LIBRARY
Many disciplines.
One mind.
Meet the people who connected worlds and the disciplines that made it possible. Each life opens a different question.
HUMAN CONNECTIONS1856–1943
Nikola Tesla
Turning a physical idea into a system.
HUMAN CONNECTIONS121–180
Marcus Aurelius
Thinking under the weight of governing.
HUMAN CONNECTIONS1955–2011
Steve Jobs
Typography could change a computer, too.
HUMAN CONNECTIONS1971–
Elon Musk
Connecting products, engineering, and industrial scale.
HUMAN CONNECTIONS1947–
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Building a presence. Changing the stage.
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ONE WORD. MANY POSSIBILITIES.
polymath.
/ ˈpɒl.ɪ.mæθ / · noun
A person who develops knowledge across different fields and learns to integrate it to think, create, and act in new ways.
Multiple interests can be the beginning. Practice, depth, and connections develop that potential.
Understand polymathyTHE POLYMATH / ON FILM
What is a
polymath?
How different interests can become a practice, and what changes with AI.
THE POLYMATH QUIZ
Your curiosity.
A next step.
Find a connection that matters to you. Create your interests map and a 30-day plan for the time you have today.
Create my map05 /WORK IN THE OPEN
Ideas need
evidence, too.
The Atlas of Augmented Polymathy is being developed to document what happens when people cross disciplines with AI.
01 / THE PROJECT
Atlas of
augmented polymathy
The map, questions, and protocol for investigating how people develop capability across disciplines.