For some time now, like everyone else, I have been asking myself a question: in a world where AI facilitates access to knowledge and automates an increasing number of even expert tasks, what is left for humans?
It made me think back to a book I had read and enjoyed many years ago: Vinnie Mirchandani's The New Polymath. He explained that innovation often stems from the transversality of knowledge and the ability to navigate between different disciplines.
For me, it was also an opportunity to discover the polymath and polymathy. Historically, a polymath is a person...