The Polymath Experiment

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The Polymath Workbook

The book gives you the ideas. The workbook is where you use them: one pursuit, one artifact, thirty days, on paper.

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What's inside

50 pages · A4 + US Letter
  1. Part 1The 30-Day Polymath ProtocolA working page for each phase: map, foundations, a ten-day practice log, synthesis, ship, review.
  2. Part 2Seven canvasesThe Operating Map, Minimum Viable Skill, the Five Depths, the Constellation, the Season Planner, the Project Graveyard, and the One-Page Review.
  3. Part 3The experiment logbookAll 58 chapter experiments from the book, each with room for what you did, what happened, and what changed in your model.
  4. ExtraConstruction grid pagesBlank 5 mm grid for drawing the systems in your own life.

Inside the PDF

Print at home, then write in pencil
Days 1–3 · Map: boxes for the field, motivation, target depth, minimum viable skill and the artifact.
The Minimum Viable Skill canvas: the skill, the smallest real artifact, the minimum capability, what's left out, the first step.
Two experiment log entries, each with the chapter's prompt, space for what you did and what happened, and a field note.

Who it's for

Readers of The Polymath Bible who want to run the method rather than admire it. If you've downloaded the book, the workbook follows it chapter by chapter. If you haven't, the book is free. Start there.

How it works

Buy, download the PDF, and print the pages you need, as often as you need them. It's made for paper: nothing here needs to be neat; it needs to be honest.