Finding the important idea, giving it structure, and building the vehicle.
A polymathic approach to business creation, strategic counsel, and the conversion of experience into intellectual assets.
Dr. Simon E. Mills is a rare multidimensional operator—a polymath with cross-disciplinary expertise spanning technology, publishing, infrastructure design, finance, media, strategy execution, music, investment banking, and entrepreneurship. Although he has been a writer through his whole life and has authored, cowritten, or ghostwritten close to eighty books, his career trajectory moves fluidly across industries and continents, consistently building category-defining platforms, forging partnerships with world-class institutions, and delivering outcomes at the intersection of creative vision and operational discipline. He is a strategist, entrepreneur, operator, tech advisor, author, artist, and ghostwriter with a portfolio of companies including enterprise software, publishing, digital knowledge, tech, and real estate.
The plight of the polymath
While the industries changed. The work did not. There was a time when cross-vertically skilled renaissance people were embraced by society until the Industrial Revolution when people became conditioned to work in a more single dimension career where one employer dominated everyday existence. Terms such as “jack of all trades, master of none” diminished the idea of the polymathic life and rewarded vocational conformity.
Methods
He finds the important idea, gives it structure, and builds the vehicle capable of carrying it into the world.
He looks at problems and uses critical thinking, creativity, and resourcefulness—earned from a lifetime of cutting his own path—and simply allows the solution to reveal itself.
~ a client pastiche