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Polymathic Being Podcast
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Polymathic Being PodcastYou Know Nothing...
Today's topic takes a different look at our brain, how it operates, and what this means for us in work, life, and play. Hang tight as we explore the things we…
Polymathic Being PodcastA Waste of Time?
Today's topic is a historical exploration of Daylight Savings Time (DST). We dive into the history of time, the surprisingly inconsistent application of DST…
Polymathic Being PodcastMasks Do Work
Today's topic has the singular goal of saving lives and when it comes to the past three years’ debates on masks, this requires a much more complex systems…
Polymathic Being PodcastTaoism and Proofs of Concept
Today's topic investigates the failure of so many proofs of concept, minimum viable products, innovation initiatives, and systems in general. The underlying…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Con[of]text
Today's topic probes the trend of so much of our communications moving from voice to text. We’ll look at the patterns, the psychology of data ingestion, common…
Polymathic Being PodcastResume Inflation - Playing the Game
Today's topic looks at the hiring process and the tools, techniques, and tactics that are used in order to screen candidates and how these can lead to actually…
Polymathic Being PodcastZen and the Art (and Science) of Freediving
Today's topic shifts gears and explores the interesting sport of freediving I immersed myself in while living in Florida. Let’s plunge into the psychological…
Polymathic Being PodcastSystems Thinking
Today's topic is another collaboration, introducing co-author C.J. Unis, a Space Force systems engineer, aspiring polymath, and complexity wizard. It’s…
Polymathic Being PodcastFunctional Stupidity and How to Avoid it
Today's topic straightforwardly addresses a lot of the underlying issues we’ve covered in essays thus far, specifically underlying the concept of the…
Polymathic Being PodcastRethink the Wisdom of Crowds
Today's topic evaluates a trite and therefore, often wrong concept known as the Wisdom of Crowds. This concept suggests that large groups of people are smarter…
Polymathic Being PodcastCan AI be Creative?
Today's topic tackles the recent discussion around whether AI can be creative when it comes to art, writing, and other content creation. We’ll dig into what…
Polymathic Being PodcastWhen Does a New Year Start?
Today's topic is a collaboration with co-author Joshua Deiches, a fellow aspiring Polymath, and looks at our tradition of celebrating the New Year on January…
Polymathic Being PodcastWho is Santa Claus?
Today's topic is holiday inspired and investigates the history behind Christmas, the fusion of traditions, who Santa is, how it ties into our culture, and what…
Polymathic Being PodcastFace the Fear
Today's topic Builds on our first essay on the Keys to Innovation, Embrace the Divergents, which shares insights for inviting the divergents, pirates, and…
Polymathic Being PodcastStereotyping Properly
Today's topic challenges the over simplified assumption that stereotyping is bad. In this exploration we look at what stereotypes are, how they are applied and…
Polymathic Being PodcastBlockchain and Government
Today's topic dives into crypto currency and blockchain in general to look at the positives and negatives of where these technologies can take us in the…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Climate is Changing
Today's topic looks at climate science in an effort to contextualize what we are seeing from climate change within the larger realm of what we should be…
Polymathic Being PodcastWhat Data Science Forgot
Today's topic tackles my consistent frustrations with the Data Science community and how they apply machine learning algorithms and other tools to data without…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Successfully Unsuccessful
Today's topic gets into something that is not only counterintuitive, but really frustrating for so many people. It’s the behaviors, over and over, that…
Polymathic Being PodcastMaturing Product, Process, and People for Startup Success
Today's topic addresses a common perspective that I’m finding in the Startup world that they are somehow unique in how they execute and how they need to focus…
Polymathic Being PodcastDirection, Energy, and Accountability
Today's topic looks at three common fallacies that I’ve found leaders tell themselves thinking they’ll provide success. Yet I find them as the primary causes…
Polymathic Being PodcastWhen Zero Food is Healthy
Today's topic addresses accepted tropes of eating, diet, and insights into how little we really know about something as simple as eating / or not eating. I’ll…
Polymathic Being PodcastEliminating Bias in AI/ML
Today's topic engages the idea of bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and looks at how such a simple term actually isn’t, and leads to a fundamental…
Polymathic Being PodcastYes, Do Quiet Quit
Today's topic will explore the current ‘phenomena’ of Quiet Quitting and questions whether our current cultural expectations for work are actually good for us…
Polymathic Being PodcastProcess Surgery
Today's topic is a follow on to The Band-Aid Paradigm and we look at what to do, after removing the band-aids, to achieve true, sustained, process improvement…
Polymathic Being PodcastEmbrace the Divergents
Today's topic highlights how you can't just want innovation; you have to think innovation so that you can unlock the true capabilities in your existing systems…
Polymathic Being PodcastReligion as a Psychology
Today's topic introduces a controversial concept that divorces religion from theology and shows how even the atheistic are vulnerable to a psychology. Get full…
Polymathic Being PodcastInvestigating Personality Proclivities
Today's topic shifts from leadership and steps back and introduces myself to you. Not my background, but introduce you to my brain. That crazy, idiosyncratic…
Polymathic Being PodcastMaximizing Authority through Leadership - Part 2
Today's topic is part 3 in a series on leadership. Part 1, Leading Without Authority, breaks apart a common trope and reorients a better understanding of…
Polymathic Being PodcastMaximizing Authority through Leadership - Part 1
Today's topic is part 2 in a series on leadership. Part 1, Leading Without Authority, breaks apart a common trope and reorients a better understanding of…
Polymathic Being PodcastLeading Without Authority
Today's topic breaks apart a pernicious idea that keeps floating around businesses regarding leadership opportunities ‘without authority.’ We investigate what…
Polymathic Being PodcastQuantum Superposition and Politics
Today's topic cracks into a quantum superposition problem, how it applies to everyday life, and why binaries are the wrong way to look at things. In this case…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Great Cover Up - A Band-Aid Paradigm
Today's topic discusses an insight I gleaned years ago on the perpetual problems with process fixes that don’t address the root cause. This situation will…
Polymathic Being PodcastLazy Leadership
Today's topic delves into a favorite counter-intuitive concept: the benefits of lazy leadership. Buckle in and find out how industrious leaders are often not…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Bane of Specialization: Defense of the Polymath
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