Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States, was what you could call a polymath: an individual who masters a wide variety of subjects and is able to tap into all of them to solve specific problems. Just like other polymaths – think Leonardo da Vinci, Al-Biruni, Leibniz, Hildegard of Bingen, Rabindranath Tagorehe covered areas as diverse as science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and the arts. He was an influential writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Today, he would no doubt have been an accomplished data scientist, software engineer, and enterprise architect as well. Portfolio management might even be his forte, as he has been credited as the inventor of the Pro & Con list, which is still an effective decision-making tool.