While I'm not sure I'd say I'm qualified to be an expert on all of these subjects, and thus not a 'polymath', I've at least understood enough to teach software

While I'm not sure I'd say I'm qualified to be an expert on all of these subjects, and thus not a 'polymath', I've at least understood enough to teach software development, game design, and writing to others, and have worked professionally in each of those fields, and I've consumed a good amount of articles, podcasts, and books on each as well. I've actually found myself drawing from each of these fields as well as other subjects I have a cursory knowledge in (linguistics, philosophy, psychology, etc) to come up with new ideas for the other subjects, so I personally think having a decent amount of knowledge in multiple fields and cross-pollinating between them is very useful. Scott Adams even suggests becoming very good at two or more things in his blog about career advice. >Capitalism rewards things that are both rare and valuable. You make yourself rare by combining two or more “pretty goods” until no one else has your mix. http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/career-advice.html http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/care...