Our name — "Jack Polymath" — is the result of combining the aphorism "Jack of all trades, master of none", with the term "polymath". This combination results in the following notion: "Jack of many trades, master of plenty". In other words, we are otherwise regular folk (ie. "Jack"), who claim to be "masters of plenty" (ie. "Polymath").
The core of our expertise concerns Business, Law, and Technology, in the context of the Internet. But our expertise goes well beyond those three core areas.
Our breadth of expertise is relevant to the services that we offer because these services require us to "think out of the box" in solving difficult problems. Possessing expertise in many different areas allows us to look at informational problems from multiple perspectives. This, in turn, makes us skilled problem solvers.
Why this is comes down to how we do our work. Our method involves analysis plus synthesis. Wikipedia defines "analysis" as "the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it". For "synthesis", the definition is "a process which combines together two or more pre-existing elements resulting in the formation of something new". Wikipedia's "synthesis" page notes that "analysis" is "the converse of synthesis".
Putting together these two converse notions results in useful insights, as the following graphic depicts:
More specifically, conducting analysis within multiple different domains leaves one with buckets of "smaller parts", one for each domain. Depending on how well we fill these buckets, we might start to notice that certain of the smaller parts reappear in a number of the buckets. Noticing this phenomenon is the first step toward synthesis, and a critical milestone on the road toward insight.
For example, Peter Savich's self-taught expertise in the Neuroscience of Personality has proved quite useful in cracking problems arising out of business marketing. This is because marketing is an exercise targeted toward the workings of the human brain. Similar dynamics apply to the other "non-core" areas of expertise.
Moreover, expertise in a wide array of fields serves as "exercise for the brain", keeping the mind "fit and limber". Solving challenging informational problems — the essence of our work — demands a fit and limber mind.
For these reasons, we're confident that we'll be useful to you on your challenging informational problems.
