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how to become a modern polymath
not by randomly learning everything.
that’s just intellectual hoarding.
a modern polymath needs structure.
what actually matters:
• build a strong spine → math, physics, computer science, writing. these fields compound into everything else
• go deep in one domain → you need one hard skill where you can actually produce real work
• go wide around it → biology, economics, history, design, psychology, philosophy. breadth gives you pattern recognition
• connect fields aggressively → innovation usually happens between domains, not inside clean academic boxes
• build artifacts → apps, essays, robots, diagrams, simulations, systems. knowledge must leave your head
• teach what you learn → if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t own it yet
• study reality, not just books → markets, machines, people, nature, institutions. the world is the real textbook
the goal is not to look smart.
the goal is to become useful across problems.
a polymath is not someone who knows random facts.
it’s someone who can move between domains,
extract principles,
connect patterns,
and build something real from the synthesis.
Attack on Titan (2013–2023) really went from “humanity fighting giant monsters” to one of the most ambitious and morally messy stories anime has ever attempted. Every season completely recontextualized the one before it. Absolute masterpiece.
Not to mention that he was nerfed in every possible way. He was extremely and mortally sickly throughout his life. His dad died before he was even born. His mother remarried and couldn’t give a single fuck about him. He was only raised by his grandmother. No support or romantic partners, he died a virgin. Suffered from extreme forms of depression. Imagine doing anything in life at all while having all of that in your psyche… much less be sir Isaac Newton. He was the one that taught me that excuses are merely our self justification for an inherent inability to persevere and achieve our potential.
Andrej Karpathy explaining neural nets in 59 seconds is still the bar. Loss, backprop, gradient descent.
Go watch Neural Networks: Zero to Hero on YouTube.