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The Polymath Group - Volume IV Issue 1
February 12, 2021
On Not Having an Opinion My favorite essay from Jia Tolentino’s excellent book,Trick Mirror, is The I in the Internet. I think it should be required reading...
Virology and Antitrust
August 7, 2020
So one week into my new project (I am still workshopping a name for it), and we are already going to break for a tangent. Well, it is sort of related. I...
Why We are so Polarized
August 1, 2020
It seems undeniable that we, well the United States at least, seem to be pushing the limits of how far we can be polarized. With the election coming up in...
Looking for Consistency not Doom
July 23, 2020
Reaching for Consistency and Simplification. One thing I have really struggled with lately is finding consistency. This seems odd because it almost feels...
Roaming Around My Brain
June 4, 2020
Obviously, there has been a lot going on in the last week or two. When I initially set out to write this newsletter, I was sort of intentionally going to...
Pushing Through
May 3, 2020
Pushing Through It may feel like it has been a while since the last newsletter, it may feel like it has been no time at all. I think one of the weirdest...
That COVID Life
March 22, 2020
Hey there, how's it going? Life out there is getting a little weird, right? When I wrote the last newsletter about COVID-19, I had a few different ideas to...
Do You Know How to Wash Your Hands?
March 8, 2020
Follow Up One of the things I forgot to include in my ‘Love of Research’ issue last week was about documentaries. I love a good documentary, I can get sucked...
Following Every Rabbit
February 28, 2020
Going Down the Rabbit Hole Last summer, I read Robert Caro’s book, Working. Having spent his life as a journalist and biographer, this book was partially an...
My Year in Movies and TV
February 14, 2020
Preamble I talked before about having a theme instead of a resolution, to use as a point to follow through the year. I mentioned then that I came across this...
My Year in Books
January 20, 2020
2019 Book Diet Back in May, I sent out a newsletter with my Media Diet, while I still am not sure how often I will share them, I will periodically, like...
Welcome to 2020
January 11, 2020
The Year of Literacy New years are a funny thing, as if this date, that we decided should mark the end of the year, can really change our lives. But, we...
Creation and Curation
December 7, 2019
Creation and Curation Have you ever sat down in front of the TV, pulled up Netflix, and just scrolled aimlessly for twenty minutes before deciding to do...
Choosing Between the Mud and the Stars.
August 26, 2019
Welcome to a late Sunday night edition of The Polymath Group. I hope it is finding you well. I just wanted to get out some quick thoughts to help frame...
Changing Seasons and Sharing My Work
August 16, 2019
Changing Seasons It seems weird that summer is already nearing its end. Although it always seems to fly by, it still hits you unexpectedly when find your...
Podcasts (Or; My Friends That Don't Know I Exist.)
July 11, 2019
Podcast Dilemma Since starting my ‘Summer Slowdown’ at the beginning of June, things have been going well. I have way less knowledge of daily news, which is...
A Meta Interlude
June 11, 2019
Newsletter Updates and Introspection When I launched what I think of as version 3.0 of this newsletter, I switched over to Buttondown as my mailing service....
Media Diet Spring 2019
May 30, 2019
Media Diet Spring 2019 This is an idea I have had for a little while, and by ‘idea I had’ I mean I am just stealing it from Jason Kottke . It is a good idea...
Time is a Flat Circle
May 15, 2019
Last night, I sat down at my computer to work on the newsletter. I was there looking over the list of topic ideas that I keep, trying to decide which would...
The Polymath Group Volume 3
April 26, 2019
Welcome Back Time has sort of escaped me, but here we are again to give this a shot. A few housekeeping items before I kind of explain what has caused the...
Dealing with Death
November 16, 2018
Dealing with Death Last Friday my mom died. We had a complicated relationship, to say the least. She had a heart attack four days earlier and was in the...
Vote!
November 2, 2018
Vote! Unless you have been living under a huge rock lately, you probably know that we are approaching the midterm elections. The closer we come to the...
Minimalism
October 14, 2018
Minimalism Most people associate spring with cleaning time, but lately it has become on my mind more and more. Really it has been on my mind for a while, but...
Happy Birthday
October 6, 2018
Happy Birthday This week and today (October 6th) bring about my birthday. I decided that I was going to take it easy this week. I still don’t want to break...
Checking Back on Goals
September 29, 2018
Checking Back on Goals I have brought up my book goal a few times lately, but today I am taking a different approach. While I have been trying to get through...
The Blank Page
September 24, 2018
The Blank Page This week has been more of a struggle for me than it should have been. Obviously, this newsletter is much later than usual. Even now as I am...
A Few Thoughts
September 14, 2018
A Few Thoughts This week I just a few random thoughts to share, so let’s get into it. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had fallen behind on my...
Doubt
September 8, 2018
Doubt I recently (an hour ago) watched the Mr. Rogers documentary; Won’t You Be My Neighbor. I have many takeaways from this that I am sure will come up in...
Reading and Attention
August 31, 2018
Reading and Attention One of my goals this year was to read 25 books, I am way behind. Don’t get me wrong, I am still going to try and pull it off, but I...
Input Methods
August 24, 2018
Input Methods Ideas come at all sorts of random times. For me, many of these times when my brain starts working on random thoughts are when I am doing...
Giving Yourself a Few Constraints
August 17, 2018
Giving Yourself a Few Constraints When you do things a certain way, often you don’t think about how other people do things, and you just assume that the way...
Our Hierarchy of Needs
August 10, 2018
One of the things that led me to want to get back into doing my newsletter is that I felt this creative itch lately. I just felt like something was missing,...
Welcome Back to The Polymath Group
August 2, 2018
Hey there, welcome back to The Polymath Group. It has been some time since I have put out a newsletter, but we are going to change that now. You may notice a...
Some Thoughts on Facebook
April 27, 2018
Welcome to another edition of The Polymath Group. If you are new here, you can see my initial newsletter that sort of lays out my intentions here. The older...
Movies with Mikey
March 6, 2018
Welcome to another edition of The Polymath Group. If you are new here, you can see my initial newsletter that sort of lays out my intentions here. The older...
Digital Maintenance
February 23, 2018
Welcome to another edition of The Polymath Group. If you are new here, you can see my initial newsletter that sort of lays out my intentions here. The older...
Following Up
February 3, 2018
Welcome to another edition of The Polymath Group. If you are new here, you can see my initial newsletter that sort of lays out my intentions here. The older...
Social Media and the News
January 14, 2018
Welcome to another edition of The Polymath Group. If you are new here, you can see my initial newsletter that sort of lays out my intentions here. The older...
2018: The Year of Focus
January 2, 2018
Welcome to another edition of The Polymath Group. If you are new here, you can see my initial newsletter that sort of lays out my intentions here. The older...
Less Phone, More Life
December 7, 2017
Welcome to another edition of The Polymath Group. If you are new here, you can see my initial newsletter that sort of lays out my intentions here. The older...
Trying
October 27, 2017
Welcome to another edition of The Polymath Group. If you are new here, you can see my initial newsletter that sort of lays out my intentions here. The older...
From a Certain Point of View
October 18, 2017
Welcome to another edition of The Polymath Group. If you are new here, you can see my initial newsletter that sort of lays out my intentions here. The older...
What is it all for?
October 9, 2017
Welcome to another edition of The Polymath Group. If you are new here, you can see my initial newsletter that sort of lays out my intentions here. The older...
An Experiment and an Introduction
September 26, 2017
For maybe a year or more now I have been seriously trying to better myself. I have been trying to be more intentional, to be more mindful, and to figure out...