Multipotentiality

Multipotentiality

Navigating life and work as a multihyphenate/polymath/generalist + building a portfolio approach to life

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Doing all of the things you genuinely love doing seems like it wouldn’t be hard but it is. This is for many reasons (that I am discovering and writing about here) but one of the strongest sources of discouragement can be that specialists tend to find traditional success faster than generalists. Simply put, by dividing your focus across many areas,... See more

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Alexander von Humboldt and the Invention of Nature: How One of the Last True Polymaths Pioneered the Cosmos of Connections

Maria Popova themarginalian.org

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What Can We Learn From the Prolific Mr. Asimov?

Farnam Street fs.blog

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Pioneering Biochemist Erwin Chargaff on the Poetics of Curiosity, the Crucial Difference Between Understanding and Explanation, and What Makes a Scientist

Maria Popova themarginalian.org

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Conscientious Urban Technology

Bryan Boyer sentiers.media

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Why Is It So Hard to Predict the Future?

David Epstein sentiers.media

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The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innov…

Vinnie Mirchandani goodreads.com

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Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences | Lex Fridman Podcast #302

Lex Fridman youtube.com

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Generalists

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