Tap into your genius

In episode 392, I speak with Dr. Sheldon Greaves, author of The Guerrilla Scholar's Handbook. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley while living and working in Silicon Valley during the dot.com boom. Pursuing his doctorate on a shoestring while indulging other interests, he developed a different approach to a life of the mind. Throughout his long and varied career, Sheldon has used the tools of “guerrilla scholarship” to do interesting intellectual work outside of academia. The Guerrilla Scholar's Handbook is part how-to, part memoir, and part manifesto that celebrates the pleasures and perils of the independent life of the mind. It also endorses communal learning as a way of strengthening and enlivening society at a time when the very idea of education and expertise is under siege. This is an awesome paradigm shifting conversation.