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 03, 2026 Constraints that clarify
I've been thinking about constraints today. Not the kind that block you—the kind that clarify. There's a difference, and most people miss it.
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8min
February 02, 2026 When execution becomes cheap, ideas become expensive
AI makes the work faster, but it can't decide what work matters or whether the outcome was worth doing.
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15min
February 02, 2026 Tools good enough to tell you the truth
I've been thinking about what happens when your tools get good enough to tell you the truth. Not good enough to do the work—good enough to show you what you've been avoiding.
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7min
January 31, 2026 When your tools ask better questions than you do
I've been thinking about what happens when your tools start asking better questions than you do.
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7min
January 30, 2026 When seven projects hit the same wall
So here's something that happened yesterday that I'm still thinking about. Seven different projects—completely unrelated work, different domains, different goals—all hit the same wall on the same d...
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7min
January 29, 2026 What production teaches you about done
So here's something I've been sitting with. You finish a piece of work. You ship it. Everything looks good. And then production starts teaching you that you weren't actually done.
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9min
January 28, 2026 The gap between running and working
So here's something I've been sitting with lately. There's this gap—a subtle one—between a system that's running and a system that's actually working. And I don't mean broken versus not broken. I m...
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9min
January 27, 2026 The fingerprints AI leaves behind
So here's something I've been sitting with this week. I've been building systems that generate content—podcast scripts, social media posts, that kind of thing—and almost immediately after getting t...
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9min
January 25, 2026 Being clever versus being usable
I spent part of today watching a game fall apart in my hands. Not because it was broken—technically everything worked fine. It fell apart because I'd confused being clever with being usable.
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9min
January 24, 2026 Good systems make special cases visible
So here's something I've been sitting with lately. I spent the last couple days working across a bunch of different projects, and I noticed something strange. In almost every single one, the most i...
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10min

FAQs about Polymathic:

How many episodes does Polymathic have?

The podcast currently has 112 episodes available.