The syndication of n1cck.us

# Biography
What we see depends mainly on what we look for - John Lubbock

Some number of years ago (deep in the COVID era) I ran across a comedian named Ali Spagnola who had an interesting quote in her bio:

    The term polymath2 3 is thrown around a lot these days . . . and Ali hopes someone will throw it at her. 4

It stuck with me for some time - partly because of the apparent audacity of such a statement, but mostly because it’s an interesting concept. How do you describe years of collected knowledge across a wide variety of fields, without falling into the “jack of all trades, master of none” trope? I’ll take my best stab at it below, and we’ll see what happens.