Polymathic

By Paul Welty

What happens to human judgment, craft, and meaning when artificial intelligence reshapes how work gets done? Polymathic explores the human side of technology — reflecting on the intersection of AI and... more

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The podcast currently has 112 episodes available.

Polymathic episodes:

February 18, 2026 When the bottleneck shifts to judgment
There's a moment in any system—a team, a company, a workflow—where the thing you've been optimizing for stops being the constraint. And you don't notice right away. You keep pushing on the old bott...
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8min
February 18, 2026 Staging areas and the friction that helps
I want to talk about staging areas. Not the technical kind—the human kind. The places where work goes to sit. The inbox you check before forwarding. The draft folder. The approval queue. The meetin...
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7min
February 16, 2026 The importance of deletion
So here's something I want to think through today. I've been working across several projects simultaneously, and what's striking me isn't the building. It's the deleting. The removing. The taking a...
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7min
February 15, 2026 When tools become plumbing
I want to talk about what happens when something stops being a tool and becomes plumbing. Because that shift is happening in my work right now, and I think it's happening everywhere, and most peopl...
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8min
February 14, 2026 The psychology of archiving
So I want to talk about archiving. Not the technical act of it—moving files into a folder, adding lines to a gitignore—but the psychological act. The decision to say: this thing is done. Not broken...
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7min
February 14, 2026 You can’t skip the hard part
Reskilling won't save you. Frameworks won't save you. The work of becoming human again is personal, uncomfortable, and has no shortcut.
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6min
February 13, 2026 Why your thought leadership content pipeline is broken
The problem isn't workflow efficiency. It's that you're treating thought leadership like a manufacturing process when it's actually a translation problem.
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11min
February 13, 2026 Failures reveal priorities
So here's something I've been thinking about. When systems fail, they don't just reveal technical problems. They reveal priorities. They reveal what teams actually value versus what they say they v...
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6min
February 12, 2026 Busy was always avoidance
Staying busy kept you from noticing where you were. AI didn't create the abyss—it just forced you to look.
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7min
February 12, 2026 What an outage reveals about your assumptions
So everything broke today. Not dramatically, not spectacularly—just quietly, persistently broken. Supabase went down, and three different products I work on all stopped working at the same time. Sa...
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7min

FAQs about Polymathic:

How many episodes does Polymathic have?

The podcast currently has 112 episodes available.