Sparking a New Renaissance with Michael Barnathan [Interview]

Summary

Today we are talking with Michael Barnathan the Founder of many projects, include the Project Polymath, of which we'll get into today. As well as overall techie, #polymath, engineer, and machine learning expert. **What are three principles to your life?** Learn as much as possible Do the hard things Lift others up with your success "The one thing I want people to take away from this, is that we need to be driving more creativity into education. We need to be giving people the opportunity to come up with their own ideas, and to have the chance to showcase them and develop them. Turn them into things. If we can change the way people think about that, that will be more powerful than the innovations that will come out of it." ## Links: http://michael.barnathan.name https://github.com/mbarnathan https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbarnathan/ https://angel.co/u/mbarnathan https://www.behance.net/michaelbarnathan www.projectpolymath.org http://www.mountaintopprogram.com #thepolymathpolycast #polyinnovator #podcast #teleinnovator #polycast ## TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Playing a new instrument 5:00 Transferable Knowledge 7:00 Goals to Spark 10:00 Various Renaissances throughout History 13:30 Project Polymath 20:00 Peer based Modular Education 23:00 Things change, why not accelerate it? 26:00 First learn how to Learn 29:50 His Various Interesting Companies 35:00 Blog Appearances 40:00 What Drives Humanity's Prosperity? 44:00 Finding ways into the Multi-Disciplinary life 46:30 What is a Polymath To you? 48:00 Recognition Plays a role on where you are on the Polymath Spectrum 50:00 The Polymath Tribe poly.tribe.so 53:00 Time Management 56:00 How can we create a NEW type of University 01:03:00 His Fantastic Art 01:05:00 Various Intelligences 01:09:00 Time at Niantic 01:13:00 His Dissertation 01:19:00 Bringing Together his previous projects 01:20:00 A Programming Prodigy 01:24:00 FLOW 01:31:00 Outro