Amateur polymath

"Amateur polymath" is a short essay by Karl Jones.

Essay

I was an amateur polymath as a child, and I am the same at 59. All I really care about is reading ideas and talking about ideas. (And drawing ideas, and singing ideas, and dancing ideas, and so forth.)

Career? One doesn't get a career, doesn't *want* a career. Specialism is death!

One gets a kind of mosaic, rather than a resume as such.

It's a good life. I like it.

History

Jones wrote the essay on the morning of Thursday, 10 December 2020, in a comment on Facebook.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes