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Polytropics

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Homage to an Odyssean Virtue

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Nov 02, 2022
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Philosopher turned Venture Investor, Michael Gibson, offers a delightful observation about Odysseus’s defining trait: that of being polytropic.

Polytropos can be translated as having many interests or many sides or many aspects—a sign of cleverness. But Gibson points out that polytropos means much more than being mul…

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