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 11, 2026 The intelligence briefing you’re not getting
Most knowledge workers spend 45 to 90 minutes each morning manually triaging the internet. The time already exists in your day. You're just spending it on filtering instead of reading.
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8min
February 11, 2026 The lock-in happens at the integration boundary
So here's something I've been sitting with today. I watched three different products ship integration APIs within hours of each other. Same basic problem—let external systems send data in. Three co...
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6min
February 10, 2026 Where complexity actually lives
I want to talk about where complexity actually lives. Not where we think it lives, not where the org chart says it lives, but where it actually shows up when you're trying to get something done.
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8min
February 09, 2026 Measurement changes what you measure
I want to talk about something I noticed this weekend that I think applies far beyond the work I was doing. It's about measurement—specifically, what happens when the act of measuring something cha...
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7min
February 08, 2026 Copying is faster than deciding
I want to talk about what happens when copying becomes faster than deciding. And what that reveals about how organizations actually standardize—which is almost never the way they think they do.
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6min
February 07, 2026 The quiet friction that adds up
I've been thinking about friction. Not the dramatic kind—not the system crash, not the project that fails spectacularly. I mean the quiet kind. The accumulation of small things that don't quite wor...
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7min
February 06, 2026 The difference between working and ready
I want to talk about the difference between a system that works and a system that's ready. These aren't the same thing. The gap between them is where most projects stall out—not from failure, but f...
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7min
February 05, 2026 When the outside no longer matches the inside
I want to talk about something I keep running into: the moment when you realize the outside of something no longer matches the inside. And what that actually costs.
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7min
February 04, 2026 The gap between it works and you can use it
I've been thinking about the gap between 'it works' and 'you can use it.' These aren't the same thing, and the distance between them is where most organizational dysfunction lives.
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6min
February 03, 2026 We always panic about new tools (and we’re always wrong)
Every time a new tool emerges for making or manipulating symbols, we panic. The pattern is so consistent it's almost embarrassing. Here's what happened each time.
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8min

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How many episodes does Polymathic have?

The podcast currently has 112 episodes available.