Hosted by Achintya Krishnan · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 34 episodes
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Achintya Krishnan hosts The Polymath, a education show with 34 episodes published.
Don't think about the average. Think about the next one. Most people ask "Is this good overall?" Marginal thinkers ask "Is the next one worth it?" At a buffet, you've paid $20 for unlimited food. Should you get a third p
Show notesThe real cost of anything isn't the price—it's what you could have done instead. Every yes is a thousand nos. Buy a $50,000 car? The cost is $50,000 invested at 7% = $380,000 in 30 years. Spend 3 hours scrolling? The cos
Show notesMost people think in absolutes: "This will work" or "This will fail." Probabilistic thinkers think in likelihoods: "This has a 70% chance of working." Nothing is certain—everything is probability. But our brains hate thi
Show notesInstead of asking "How do I succeed?" ask "How do I fail?" Then avoid those things. Inversion means approaching problems backwards—from the opposite end. Carl Jacobi said "Invert, always invert." Charlie Munger says "Tel
Show notesMost people stop at first-order effects—the immediate, obvious result of a decision. Second-order thinking asks "And then what?" It's about seeing the consequences of consequences, the ripple effects, the ways systems ad
Show notesMost people reason by analogy—copying what works, following convention, doing what everyone else does. First principles thinking is different: breaking problems down to fundamental truths and reasoning up from there. It'
Show notesWhy do the rich get richer while the poor stay poor? It's not about morality or work ethic—it's mathematics. Compound interest, network effects, economies of scale, information asymmetry, risk tolerance, path dependence,
Show notesYou've already seen feedback loops without knowing it. When we talked about inflation spiraling, housing bubbles bursting, interest rates cooling the economy—those were all feedback loops. Today we're making the pattern
Show notesAt human scale, reality is predictable. Throw a ball, it follows an arc. Push an object, it moves. Cause and effect are clear. But zoom down to electrons and atoms, and all the rules break. Particles exist in multiple pl
Show notesYour phone. Your car. Your lights. Credit cards. They all run on one trick: electricity and magnetism are the same thing. Move charges, get magnetism. Move magnets, get electricity. That loop—discovered in 1820—transform
Show notesLight is a wave. Also, light is a particle. No, you can't pick one—it's both. Simultaneously. Deal with it. In this episode, we're explaining wave-particle duality, the physics concept that broke everyone's brain in the
Show notesSpace explosions are silent. Your recorded voice is what you actually sound like. You can't hum while holding your nose. Opera singers can't really shatter glass (usually). In this episode, we're breaking down sound—what
Show notesYour heart beats 100,000 times a day. Ocean waves crash every 10 seconds. Markets boom and bust. Fashion cycles every 20 years. Political power swings left and right. Your energy oscillates between high and low. Why does
Show notesWhy can't you just stop? Stop the bad habit. Leave the dead-end job. End the wrong relationship. You know what you should do. But you don't. Here's why: momentum. The same physics law that makes freight trains take three
Show notesYou can push against a wall for an hour and do zero work. A child lifting a book does more. Why? Because in physics, work isn't about effort—it's about results. In this episode of Polymath, we break down what work and po
Show notesWhat is energy, really? In this episode of Polymath, we build a true, intuitive understanding of the most important concept in all of science. Learn what energy actually is (not just "the ability to do work"), explore it
Show notesDiscover the invisible rules that govern everything in the universe. In this episode of Polymath, we explore conservation laws—the fundamental principles that say energy, momentum, and mass can never be created or destro
Show notesNewton’s Three Laws of Motion are short enough to memorize but powerful enough to explain nearly everything that moves — cars, rockets, sports, falling objects, walking, flying, and even planetary orbits. In this episode
Show notesPhysics isn’t just equations — it’s the operating system of the universe. This episode introduces physics as the deepest rulebook behind everything: smartphones, rockets, bridges, fire, time, and even economics. We explo
Show notesWhy is one U.S. dollar worth many pesos but less than one British pound? Why do exchange rates constantly change? And why does the U.S. dollar dominate global finance? This episode demystifies currency exchange using int
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