poly-expertise

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...
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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...
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