Learning in Seasons

I want to know everything, but being a polymath is hard and unfocused. I often feel like I know an insufficient amount about everything. It’s likely because I read topics from a cross-section of fields (economics, politics, healthcare) within the same day, which leaves me overwhelmed.

This jumping around between topics also makes it difficult to keep up my i-write-for-thought-lego habit. Context-switching is expensive. Instead, a better approach is to learn in seasons.

Every season has a start date, a duration and a theme. During the season, all learning activity is aligned to the season’s theme, and all the noise is ignored (save a few regular newsletters that I will continue to read). This will let me achieve a modicum of depth in each topic I want to be well-informed on, and the duration of the season can be adjusted based on how deep I would like to go.