Newsletter

  • 🎶 When Sound Changes Sight, Taste, & Memory

    TCP010 | ⏰~6min read Welcome to The Contemporary Polymath Newsletter, where you broaden your horizons, feed your curiosity, and spark new ideas on Thursdays by Naya Moss 📧 In This Issue 👋🏾 Hey there friend, During the early times of the pandemic, I spent seven months studying sound, music theory, instruments, ancient acoustics, and how sound shapes…

  • 🥰 Quiet Ways Shaping Who We Trust, Favor, & Like

    TCP011 | ⏰~7min read Welcome to The Contemporary Polymath Newsletter, where you broaden your horizons, feed your curiosity, and spark new ideas on Thursdays by Naya Moss 📧 In This Issue 👋🏾 Hey there friend, The inspiration for this week’s issue started with something I heard on a YouTube video. They were talking about interest in hiring someone not…

  • 🎨 Creativity, Curiosity & the Courage Not to Pick One

    TCP010 | ⏰~6min read Welcome to The Contemporary Polymath Newsletter, where you broaden your horizons, feed your curiosity, and spark new ideas on Thursdays by Naya Moss 📧 In This Issue 👋🏾 Hey there, friend! Issue #10 felt like the perfect moment to pause and return to why I started this newsletter in the first place. Growing…

  • 📱 The Attention Illusion: What You’re Not Noticing Is Changing You

    TCP009 | ⏰~7min read | 🔗 read online Welcome to The Contemporary Polymath Newsletter, where you broaden your horizons, feed your curiosity, and spark new ideas on Thursdays by Naya Moss 📧 In This Issue 👋🏾 Hey there, friend! A few weeks ago, I stayed with someone who repeatedly missed things right in front of them—an object sitting…

  • 🧠 Stuck in the In-Between? It Might Be Your Most Creative Phase

    TCP008 | ⏰~7min read | 🔗 read online Welcome to The Contemporary Polymath Newsletter, where you broaden your horizons, feed your curiosity, and spark new ideas on Thursdays 📧 In This Issue 👋🏾 Hey there, friend! I’ve been sitting in a strange kind of limbo lately—what you might call a liminal space. Not everything in my life…

  • 🏡 From Chaos to Clarity: What Our Spaces Say About Us

    TCP007 | ⏰ ~7min read | 🔗 read online Welcome to The Contemporary Polymath Newsletter, where you broaden your horizons, feed your curiosity, and spark new ideas every Thursday 📧 In This Issue 👋🏾 Hey there, friend! Last week, I mentioned we’d be diving into psychology and the subtle ways technology rewires our brains. That topic’s still on the…

  • 🧮 From Code to Curiosity: The Hidden Patterns of Math & Tech in Everyday Life

    TCP006 | ⏰ ~6min read Welcome to The Contemporary Polymath Newsletter, where you broaden your horizons, feed your curiosity, and spark new ideas on Thursdays 📧 In This Issue 👋🏾 Hey there, friend! If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my journey through tech and math, it’s that patterns are everywhere. From the algorithms that shape…

  • 🧪 Secrets of Science: Hidden Patterns, Bold Pioneers & Tiny Experiments

    TCP005 | ⏰ ~5min read | 🔗 read online Welcome to The Contemporary Polymath Newsletter, where you broaden your horizons, feed your curiosity, and spark new ideas every Thursday 📧 In This Issue 👋🏾 Hey there, friend! If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that the best way to grow is through tiny experiments—testing new…

  • 🎨 Creativity as Resistance: Art, Science & Stories They Tried to Erase

    TCP004 | ⏰ ~6min read | 🔗 read online Welcome to The Contemporary Polymath Newsletter, where you broaden your horizons, feed your curiosity, and spark new ideas every Thursday 📧 In This Issue 🎨 Art as Resistance – The power of Black creativity in activism🩰 Dance as Protest – How movement became a tool for change🖼️ Painting Identity – William Henry Johnson’s artistic revolution🪨 Sculpting…

  • 🧬 Science, Secrets & The Legacy of Medical Pioneers

    TCP003 | ⏰ ~6min read | 🔗 read online Welcome to The Contemporary Polymath Newsletter, where you broaden your horizons, feed your curiosity, and spark new ideas every Thursday 📧 In This Issue 👋🏾 Hey there, friend! I’ve been thinking a lot about how we engage with history—especially when it comes to months dedicated to specific groups. Over the…