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Polymathic Being Podcast
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Polymathic Being PodcastBenevolent Dictatorship
Today's topic looks at governing structures that humans seem to do best under and explores why we seem inclined toward a benevolent dictator. When we step…
Polymathic Being PodcastHow to Identify a Good Leader
Today's topic continues to build on our understanding of what I might be so bold as to call ‘true’ leadership. Today we investigate a simple but often very…
Polymathic Being PodcastAn AI Enabled Polymath
Today's topic is my answer to from who recently asked: "Can Generative AI make us all Polymaths and company founders?" This essay was first published on his…
Polymathic Being PodcastJudging a Book by its Cover
Today's topic provides an example of real-time analysis, adjustment, and adaptation specifically regarding my debut novel. As much as I talk on these topics of…
Polymathic Being PodcastHow Many Laws?
Today's topic follows up on a previous essay where we explored the structure of Biblical Law. There, I promised to investigate just how many of the Biblical…
Polymathic Being PodcastUnderstanding Success
Today's topic takes a step back from a valuable concept of how we view the elements of success and looks hard at how we even define success and whether those…
Polymathic Being PodcastTurtles All The Way Down
Today's topic addresses the concept that almost everything requires a statement of faith and that we are largely completely comfortable with this. Unless it’s…
Polymathic Being PodcastAgency vs. Addiction
Today's topic focuses on Personal Agency as an antidote to an Addiction Economy. I’ve been contemplating this one for a while, unsure how to write it but…
Polymathic Being PodcastPolymaths Unite
Today's topic is motivated by an engagement with a subscriber on Substack chat. (which you all can join via the link at the end) It highlighted that some…
Polymathic Being PodcastDon't Trust AI... Entrust It
Today's topic started as a much more technical article that I’ve distilled down to capture one of the single most important insights I’ve come across in the…
Polymathic Being PodcastSteelman
Today's topic is about making you into a superhero! We are going to help you improve your strength and agility. You’ll be able to soar above everyone else…
Polymathic Being PodcastChaos and Order
Today's topic is a second exploration into the strength of the feminine and forces us to address something many find problematic in that the ancient archetypes…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Dirty Secret of Recycling
Today's topic is painful for me to write as I’m an environmental conservationist who has spent the better part of my life recycling. Over the past years, I’ve…
Polymathic Being PodcastRediscovering the Goddess
Today's topic is going to explore something that I think is drastically missing from feminism: the feminine. It’s a complicated topic that has to peel back…
Polymathic Being PodcastNuclear Meltdown
Today's topic attempts to energize interest in an incredible technology that many view negatively; Nuclear Power. We’ll introduce the cutting-edge advances in…
Polymathic Being PodcastAcknowledge and Ignore
Today's topic is one more on leadership but this time pivots to one of the most effective followership tactics I’ve ever heard and struggle to do. It’s a…
Polymathic Being PodcastClothing and Sex
Today's topic is another sociological and psychological investigation into how the clothing we wear sends complex signals that can be interpreted differently…
Polymathic Being PodcastAmazon Exposed!
Welcome to Polymathic Being, a place to explore counterintuitive insights across multiple domains. These essays take common topics and investigate them from…
Polymathic Being PodcastCapture Your Imagination
Today's topic is a special request asking for fiction authors to share tips and tricks of their creative writing process for those who have spent more time in…
Polymathic Being PodcastAn Ode to Beer
Today's topic is another collaboration with Andrew Smith who writes Goatfury Writes We partnered recently on An Ode to Coffee where we did a fun historical…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Uterine Lottery
Today's topic builds off a concept we introduced in The Beauty Quandary, namely that our existence is somehow random, part of a ‘Uterine Lottery’ of sorts…
Polymathic Being PodcastNot So Idolatrous
Today's topic investigates a story that many of us are familiar with from Sunday School or at least within the larger fabric of Western Culture; the Golden…
Polymathic Being PodcastI Hate AI!
Today's topic wrangles with my love/hate relationship with Artificial Intelligence (AI). On the one hand, I feel like the interwebs are chock full of absolute…
Polymathic Being PodcastStop Aiming at the Wrong Targets
Today's topic ties together some of my experience in the Army and how it helps with the very same Systems Thinking in technology and business that we’ve…
Polymathic Being PodcastAre Humans Natural or Supernatural?
Today's topic plays around with an interestingly complex problem about human existence. Often we are told that what humans are doing is not natural. Yet this…
Polymathic Being PodcastBorn or Trained
Today's topic squares off on a long-touted platitude that leaders are trained, not born. Out of the gate, this makes logical sense; my Army Officer training…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Genius Myth
Today's topic is part book review and part exploration into the foundational elements of the Polymathic Mindset. Namely that innovation occurs across and…
Polymathic Being PodcastLooking Into a Mirror
Today's topic attempts to crack the code of how so many conversations can get sidewise despite our intent. We’ll look at how some people respond in ways that…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe No True AI Fallacy
Today's topic is a twist on a challenge I’ve faced in the Autonomy / AI world for half a decade. It’s based on the No True Scotsman Fallacy and is a continuous…
Polymathic Being PodcastGrowing, Learning, Creating
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Polymathic Being PodcastEmbracing My White Belt
Today's topic addresses one of the more frustrating retorts I sometimes get on social media. “Never trust someone who claims to be a polymath.” To be fair, the…
Polymathic Being PodcastMoney Burn
Today's topic focuses on an odd behavior we have as humans where we are incredibly picky about providing money to those in need while not thinking twice about…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Beauty Quandary
Today's topic dives straight into something many would like to overlook: Beauty. The problem is we might like to overlook it but we look at it all the time…
Polymathic Being PodcastExegesis: A Powerful Analytical Tool
Today's topic highlights the power of an analytical concept called Exegesis. It’s an amazing tool to help shift perspective and demonstrates how digging a…
Polymathic Being PodcastTrauma and Antifragility
Today's topic expands on a concept known as Antifragility and how, without trauma, antifragile systems cannot get better with time. The challenge is that the…
Polymathic Being PodcastComposable Architectures and Lego
Today's topic introduces the concept of composability in design and connects the popular Lego model to both what is so good about composability and modularity…
Polymathic Being PodcastKnowledge [Transfer] is Power
Today's topic pushes back on the problematic trope of “Knowledge is Power.” We’ll explore a couple of examples of the terrible behaviors and gatekeeping that…
Polymathic Being PodcastWho Are You to ____?
Today's topic pushes back on the idea that you have to have a certain credential or education to have an informed opinion on a topic. We’ve discussed the…
Polymathic Being PodcastProviding Top Cover Part 2
Welcome to Polymathic Being, a place to explore counterintuitive insights across multiple domains. These essays take common topics and investigate them from…
Polymathic Being PodcastProviding Top Cover Part 1
Today's topic is the first of two parts on providing Top Cover. This essay will cover the concept of creating stability and consistency in execution to protect…
Polymathic Being PodcastBeware the Binary
Today's topic is a collaboration with Andrew Smith who also writes on tech topics at GoatFury's FutureScape. He wrote a piece recently that caught my attention…
Polymathic Being PodcastDesign Like a Sailor
Today's topic Looks at Product Development and Program Managment from the perspective of sailing. More specifically, why it always seems like we are changing…
Polymathic Being PodcastTradition!
Today's topic grapples with what’s really behind tradition and what the challenges are when we remove them without considering what problems they are solving…
Polymathic Being PodcastFail Early, Fail Often... Or Maybe Not?
Today's topic takes the recent OceanGate catastrophe and demonstrates how it is quite literally the hardware manifestation of Silicon Valley software start-up…
Polymathic Being PodcastAI Is[n't] Killing Artists
Today's topic is one I’m still debating whether I should get into since it’s about social media engagement and AI. I won’t deny, I feel like I keep talking…
Polymathic Being PodcastLead as if You Won't Survive the Engagement
Today's topic is a philosophical approach to leadership that rethinks where we put the value in our output. It’s an ego killer in some ways but I think it’s…
Polymathic Being PodcastAI Computes; Humans Think
Today's topic unlocks humanity’s superpower; The ability to critically think, ask questions, and form, unform, and reform ideas. It’s a key aspect that AI…
Polymathic Being PodcastBrain Stretch
Today's topic is a bit of a book review plus a critical element that I’m finding essential for those interested in the Polymathic mindset. The book is Range…
Polymathic Being PodcastWe Poop Wrong
Today's topic is an exploration of poor biomechanics and probes the way we poop. I know, this is not what most consider polite conversation but bear with me…
Polymathic Being PodcastSlow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast
Today's topic introduces an old Military Special Operations adage that I’ve found to be incredibly useful throughout my entire career. It’s a phrase I remind…
Polymathic Being PodcastWe Walk Wrong
Today's topic is an exploration of poor biomechanics and tackles the way we walk and run. I’ll admit, I fell victim to the ideas of running promoted by shoe…
Polymathic Being PodcastWe Breathe Wrong
Today's topic is an exploration of poor biomechanics and explores breathing. As simple as this might sound, most of us do it wrong, including myself. We’ll…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Biggest Threat from AI is Us!
Today's topic faces the distinctly human characteristic to project our own emotional states on animals and, in the case of AI, inanimate objects. While the…
Polymathic Being PodcastNothing Good Happens After 4PM
Today's topic pokes at a problem I see all too often in businesses. It revolves around all the talk of alignment, execution, and stability and yet, when the…
Polymathic Being PodcastDo You Really Think Critically?
Today's topic is another collaboration with and delves into what we call Critical Thinking and, in doing so, uncover the core of Polymathic Disciplines…
Polymathic Being PodcastThreatcasting
Today's topic is an introduction to a very important capability called Threatcasting. We’ll get into the goals, the model that runs it, and an example I just…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Layers of AI
Welcome to Polymathic Being, a place to explore counterintuitive insights across multiple domains. These essays take common topics and investigate them from…
Polymathic Being PodcastWhat's In A Brain?
Today's topic looks into how our brains capture, process, store, and recall memories and how that relates to the recent advancements in AI. We’ll explore our…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Enemy's Gate is Down
Today's topic explores some interesting stories from my time in the Army and how those lessons apply to my work in the professional world. This intentional…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Art of STEM
Today’s topic picks apart the popular trope of inserting Art into Science Technology Engineering, and Math, otherwise known as STEM. We’ll look at why trying…