Every Polymath Needs a Junto
Benjamin Franklin founded the Junto — a weekly club of curious minds from different trades — because he understood that interdisciplinary thinking requires interdisciplinary community. This is ours.
How We Connect
The community is growing. Here is what exists and what is coming.
The Junto Forum
Coming SoonNamed after Benjamin Franklin's weekly intellectual club, our Junto is an open forum for sharing cross-disciplinary insights, asking questions across fields, and discussing the ideas that connect everything.
Synthesis Club
Coming SoonA monthly practice where members share one essay, project, or insight that combines two or more disciplines. The most powerful community learning happens at the edges where fields meet.
Our Values
These are the principles that guide how we build and how we engage with each other.
Intellectual Generosity
Share what you know freely. The polymath tradition has always been one of open intellectual exchange.
Curiosity Over Credentials
We judge ideas on their merit, not on the credentials of the person expressing them. A curious beginner often sees things a credentialed expert cannot.
Depth and Breadth
We respect both the specialist who goes extremely deep and the generalist who ranges widely. The most interesting minds do both.
Cross-Disciplinary Respect
No discipline is superior. Physics, poetry, cooking, and carpentry all offer genuine insight. We treat all domains with equal intellectual seriousness.
Open by Default
Our code is open source. Our content is free. Our APIs are public. We believe open infrastructure creates better outcomes for everyone.
Build in Public
We share our roadmap, our mistakes, and our progress openly. Transparency is a form of intellectual honesty.
Part of the Platphorm News Network
Polymaths is one node in a growing network of knowledge sites. Every impactful endeavour requires at least one polymath at the table. We are building the infrastructure to make that possible.