Firstly, a (belated) Happy New Decade to all! Before the holiday season, I wrote about how poly-expertise was possible. In particular, I did some basic arithmetic: if we kept at something — say, working at a particular job — for 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, that it’d take us just over 8 [...]
Categories: generalists,poly-expertise
Tagged: generalist, poly-expert, polymath, time management
This conversation really began a few months ago, from my self-reflective rambly essay on hippiesque, followed by my friend Stephanie Booth’s investigation into the idea of the “poly-expert”. The question arose over an informal chat: what can multi-talented or multi-skilled people call themselves that do justice to their poly-expertise, when the market seems only interested [...]
Categories: generalists,poly-expertise
Tagged: generalist, poly-expert, polymath, time management
A few weeks ago, I was in a work-related meeting where we were discussing skill sets required in a small team. At one point, someone said, “But we can’t be good at everything.” Since then, I found myself repeating that once or twice in some similar circumstance, but each time I say these words or [...]
Categories: generalists,poly-expertise,thoughts