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In reply to @kepano
10/24/2022

The classic example is da Vinci, but some other polymaths come to mind: - Ben Franklin (politics, random inventions, writing, statescraft) - Gottfried Leibniz (calculus, law, philosophy) - Buckminster Fuller (engineering, math, architecture) - Richard Feynman (safe-cracking, bongos, also physics apparently?)

In reply to @nicholasachow
10/24/2022

My controversial opinion is that we'll need more of these polymaths in the future, since human institutions and complex systems become much more interwoven and interdependent through time. Therefore, you're going to need more orthogonal primitives from different disciplines to sense-make correctly.