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Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

68 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings

Origins are conversations with thought-leaders across an eclectic mix of disciplines (science, engineering, art, and design), crafted specifically for the category-defying society that we live in. We explore the thoughts, passions, and stories that defined these pioneers’ fascinating trajectories, arriving at the origins of the pivotal moments across their lives. Draw inspiration for your own trajectory from the intellectual and spiritual electricity of these eclectic conversations.

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The Great Askers (episode 1): Sara Hendren and Krista Tippett

January 30, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MB

Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter and the post introducing Great Asking Show Notes: Sara Hendren's Origins Conversation start of a living conversation (05:20) Ignorance by Stuart Firestein (06:00) questions are the oxygen of imagination (08:00) curiosity is a moral muscle (10:10) The Division of Cognitive Laborby Philip Kitcher (09:20) Sara's substack (10:40) Howard Gardner (11:20) Participatory readiness Danielle Allen (16:40) Living the Questions with Krist...

James Evans - Cultural observatories, knowledge communities, and a life resplendent with ideas

January 09, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 53.7 MB

James Evans' life is one resplendent with ideas. His trajectory into research and learning in areas as wide as network science, collective intelligence, computational social science, and even how knowledge is created, is as irreducible as it is exhilarating, and is a beacon in disorienting times marked by seemingly accelerating paces of change.  Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: cultural and knowledge observatories (05:30) Mark Granovetter (09:15) Steve...

Ingrid Daubechies - The "Godmother of digital image" on the beauty of the world

November 28, 2023 09:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MB

Ingrid Daubechies is endlessly, irrepressibly, beautifully curious. She is a Belgian physicist and mathematician whose scientific achievements have rippled across society in all directions for the past 35 years. But, more than that, she's a fierce champion of diversity and equality, in math and science, in women's rights, in opportunity. To sit with Ingrid, her math and her life, is to illuminate our world and inspire us to imagine other worlds.  Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons...

Mark Granovetter - Weak ties, living questions, and the history and future of social science

October 31, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MB

Mark Granovetter has made and remade our understanding of social networks, social theory, collective action, and economic sociology, making and remaking our world in the process. It would not be hyperbole to say that few living scholars have had the influence of Mark Granovetter.  Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell (9:00) Interest in world history (10:00) A History of the Modern World (11:00) Why are there rev...

Tina Eliassi-Rad - A master class in network thinking and the kind of life it makes

October 03, 2023 08:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MB

Tina Eliassi-Rad is a network science pioneer, and an intrepid explorer of where network science shows up in our world and how we understand that. Her work, as her life, falls across network science, complexity, artificial intelligence, and commitments to democracy and equality, itself a constellation of experiences and literacies befitting our increasingly complex world. Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: Jon Kleinberg (09:20) Northeastern Network Scien...

Judith Donath - Technology, trust, and what holds society together

September 01, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 50.9 MB

Judith Donath is a design thinker for some of the most important theory for how people interact in online spaces, drawing on evolutionary biology, architecture, ethnography, cognitive science. She just might be the voice we need for the multi-media multiscale world we're walking into. Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: Tsundoku (09:00) The cost of honesty (09:30) theory of mind, MIT Media Lab, and Marvin Minsky (13:00) Roger Schank (13:30) cultural me...

C. Thi Nguyen - This conversation will change how you see the world

July 25, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 52 MB

There is something irresistible about the way C. Thi Nguyen thinks about and structures the world. From the lenses of trust, art, games, and communities he thinks about seemingly everything. In each of these topics, he's written pieces that I consider to be among the most important works on them. Origins Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: Games: Agency as Art (01:55) Anne Harrington (07:20) The Great Endarkenment Elijah Millgram (09:20) Trust and Antitrust Annette Bai...

Paul Wong - Reinventing cybernetics and composing a life

June 13, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 44 MB

We find ourselves living in a time of great complexity and flux, where the very fabric of our societies is being rewoven by the rise of artificial intelligence and the interplay of complex systems. How do we make sense of a world that is undeniably interconnected, with increasingly porous boundaries between nature and culture, human and machine, science and art? Paul Wong is reshaping that conversation, drawing on science, philosophy, and art. Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons N...

Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn - Understanding curiosity, nourishing a life, and how thoughts move

May 30, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 47.3 MB

Twins Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn are curious. Their work, individually and together, gives new conception and language to what curiosity is, the work that it does in the world. These are human beings of intelligence and integrity and deep care, and their reification of curiosity might just be a generative narrative of our time.  Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: Homeschooling (05:00) Epistemology (09:00) multiple discovery (16:30) foregrounding brave...

Julio Ottino - chaos, the capacity for emergence, and timeless ideas

May 16, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MB

Every so often someone comes along whose thinking and work inspire you with the kind of awe that always feels new and fills you with an energy that brings vibrancy to life. Julio Mario Ottino is one of these people. Pulling from science, technology, and art, creating entirely new spaces in their convergence, he has transformed how to think about discovery and creativity. Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka influences (07:1...

Season Six Trailer: A season of flourishing

May 06, 2023 08:00 - 5 minutes - 3.62 MB

After a generative break from new episodes, Origins Podcast is back with Season Six! 2023 has been a year of rapid change even as we carry the rupture of the last three years. It is precisely into this evolving landscape, that we are excited to announce that Origins Podcast returns with its Sixth Season! While it will continue to be a forum to explore the pivotal moments for a diverse array of voices where the universal peeks out from the particular, we are also adapting the show to our cha...

Frank White - The Overview Effect and a planetary civilization

March 14, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MB

Frank White is a philosopher of space. In 1987 he coined the term "the overview effect," referring to the life-altering experience astronauts received upon witnessing our planet from outer space. His work, as his life, bring this transformation of perspective into sharper focus, presenting an alternative perception of ourselves, our world, and our future. Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: The Overview Effect & The Cosma Hypothesis(03:00) Being a part of...

Nicole Stott - Ambassador to the cosmos and to our humanity

January 03, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MB

Nicole Stott has a towering range of knowledge and experience, from the heights of outer space as a NASA astronaut to the depths of the ocean as an aquanaut, from the rigor and structure of science to the openness and imagination of art. She continually defies category, and her life embodies the creativity and interconnection that we are called to in the face of planetary challenges. Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: Early mentors (06:30) Keeping wonder ...

David Sloan Wilson - Archipelagos of knowledge, commons, and the science of cooperation

December 06, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MB

David Sloan Wilson is one of biology’s most prolific and impactful scientists. He is author of paradigmatic contributions to evolutionary theory and how organisms behave, such as multilevel selection and core design principles for the efficacy of groups. But the reach of his work is far beyond the domains of biology and sociology, in whole a toolkit for improving how we live together and weaving between areas of thought. Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: ...

Ed Finn - Thoughtful optimism, intellectual voyaging, and a Center for Science and the Imagination

November 01, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 53.4 MB

Ed Finn might be best described as an imaginer. The rest of the many things that he is and does kind of fall into place with that foundation. He started and for the past decade has been Director of the unexampled Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University. Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter (06:20) Specialization vs generalization (07:00) N Katherine Hayles (12:00) We have never been mod...

Alex McDowell - A master class in worldbuilding and designing holistic spaces

October 04, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MB

Alex McDowell is a worldbuilder. He builds future realities to envision worlds that don't yet exist. By working across disciplines to imagine the future, his worlds inform and inspire stories and open eyes to new possibilities. Origins Podcast website Show Notes:  Quaker meeting (09:40) Empowerment The skills of listening and gathering (11:40) The politics of your social experience (12:10) Worldbuilding "Storytelling Shapes the Future"  Every world is a holistic system at multiple ...

David Hassler - Leaping thought, authoring a life, and a spirit of passionate inquiry

September 06, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MB

Poetry comes up so often in my conversations these days. Our society in crisis seems to be desperate for it, without being able to name that desperation until a poem calls it out of us. For years, award-winning Poet David Hassler has been defining and redefining how poetry enters and moves people and communities.  Show Notes: Jane Hirshfield (04:30) Poets for Science (04:50) Francis Weller - how we tend the dead is as important as how we tend the living (09:30) Prayer wheels (14:00) Bu...

Alicia Juarrero - the philosopher who will change how you think about complexity

August 09, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 47.1 MB

Alicia Juarrero is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College and the author of Dynamics in Action, a text that many consider to have laid the foundation for how we think about complexity in our society. So Alicia is a philosopher for this moment in human history. Show Notes: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (03:31) Live the questions Duino Elegies User Friendly by Cliff Kuang (11:50) Herbert Simon and the importance of information diet (12:50) T...

Brandon Ballengée - Biodiversity, muscular hope, and the persistence of life

July 12, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MB

Brandon Ballengée has a unique quality of attention, one that is not constrained by traditional distinctions between art & science and working & living. He wants to share that capacity to witness to liberate everyone's imagination of what this world can be, a world we are of rather than just in. This ecological consciousness informs his work as a visual artist, biologist and environmental educator. Show Notes: biodiversity (07:00) trophic networks (13:10) ethnography and buffer zones (1...

Origins Season Five Trailer

July 01, 2022 08:00 - 4 minutes - 3.11 MB

Welcome back to Origins, listeners. After a few month hiatus, we're back with an exhilarating, generative, spacious season of the show--the hiatus was in part so that I could focus on research, to launch a new series of 'salons' with the Cultural Program for the National Academy of Science (see here for an example), help ignite a new initiative toward Open Science with NASA, and to do more writing, which you can read a bit about in a new Substack newsletter (The Flourishing Commons) that is ...

Sara Hendren - Healthy relationality, how we meet the built world, and the curriculum of the future

March 22, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 44.9 MB

Subscribe to The Flourishing Commons - a newsletter to accompany Origins episodes and to build a community around a rich forum for exchange. Sara Hendren is a humanist in tech. This may seem like a strange statement, but it may be a perfect place to pick up Sara's trajectory. She is a brilliant designer, an affecting educator, and just might be the source of language that will transform the way you witness the world. Show Notes: critique and repair (06:55) Generous Thinking Kathleen Fi...

Michael Hochberg - mystery and our pivotal moments, innovation, and science from cells to societies

February 15, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 47.7 MB

Michael Hochberg is Distinguished Research Director with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) and based at the University of Montpellier, France. His research has for many years spanned fields from ecology to epidemiology to biodiversity to innovation to the communication of science and touches every scale imaginable, from cells to societies. Show Notes: the magic of doing science (04:20) Howell Daley (13:00) Some of the b...

Dave Snowden - Sensemaking, complexity, and frameworks for living

January 04, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MB

For years Dave Snowden has helped me understand how to navigate a complex world better than perhaps any other thinker. He draws so widely from all schools of thought in forming frameworks for sensemaking. This episode is expanding. It will be with me for a long time and I hope it stays with you, too.  Read more at: https://www.originspodcast.co/episodes-1 Show Notes: Complicated vs complex (08:00) Paul Cilliers Dynamics in Action Alicia Juarrero  Lecture: "How not to manage complexity...

Katy Börner - Networks, noticing what we don't expect, and an atlas for navigating our world

December 07, 2021 09:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MB

Katy Börner is one of the great mappers of our age. Her maps tell the history of science, trace how communication has evolved from the stone age to modern day, and reveal the connections across our society. In her work, all of these things become visual and interactive. That is to say she is the perfect person to talk to in this age when complexity lurks behind the most intractable issues facing our society and demands new ways of witnessing them. Show Notes: Places & Spaces: Mapping Scien...

(Best Of) Cecilia Conrad - Steward of the MacArthur Genius Grants, 100 million dollars, and transcendent empowerment

November 16, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MB

This episode originally aired on June 4, 2020.  There are new episodes coming to you soon, so stay tuned.  But now is a good time to revisit wise words from one of my favorite previous guests, Cecilia Conrad, Managing Director of the MacArthur ('Genius') Fellows Program and the 100&Change program.  The 2021 class of MacArthur Fellows was announced in late September 2021. In Cecilia Conrad's words, “As we emerge from the shadows of the past two years, this class of 25 Fellows helps us reim...

Jessica Flack - Finding the right questions, the wisdom of complexity, and deep physical and cognitive fitness

October 19, 2021 08:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MB

Dr. and professor Jessica Flack has been a dream guest for Origins since the beginning - the kind of generous intellect and polymath whose words and work expand everyone around her. She also might be the person we can place our trust in to help us learn how to make sense of an increasingly complex world. Show Notes: Josh Epstein - agent-based modeling (04:20) The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) and complex systems thinking (07:30) Mark Newman and network science Murray Gell-Mann The Synergis...

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin - The AlloSphere, a deeper integration of art and science, and the new senses we need now

October 05, 2021 08:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MB

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is a composer. But the music she writes is more than mere notes; it embraces art and science and engineering and finds new frontiers at the intersection of them all. Her 'music' is both song and her research into new modes of immersive, interactive scientific and artistic investigation. Through art as with science, her work seeks to create as she says, "an exponential rise in consciousness." Show Notes: Pythagoras - a rock is music frozen in time (09:00) Evolving accor...

Paco Nathan - Thinking in "graphs", a data and tech pioneer on living in a complex world

September 14, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 48.5 MB

I have trouble wrapping any adequate labels around this episode’s guest, Paco Nathan. Paco is a technologist, data scientist and an evangelist of a brighter data and technology future. He has an uncommon ability to synthesize the gaps and trends in this complex and evolving space, and gives me hope that we can create a more flourishing future within it. Show Notes: Origins of Artificial Intelligence and mentors (06:00) Humberto Maturana ("What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain") Fern...

Caitlin McShea - Meeting places of art and science, interplanetary thinking, and an imaginative life

August 31, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 44 MB

Caitlin McShea is that special kind of curious that you cannot help but be inspired by, and she has the intellect to spread that curiosity over any domain. For the past ten years in roles varying from director of art galleries, curator and coordinator of exhibits, and now as a program manager at the Santa Fe Institute, she has been giving language, image, and concreteness to some of the most imaginative and futuristic thoughts of our age. Show Notes: Life's Edge Carl Zimmer (03:00) Four L...

Anima Anandkumar - Artificial Intelligence and a flourishing society

August 17, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MB

Professor Anima Anandkumar is a meteor in the field of artificial intelligence or AI. Her rise in the space has been a phenomenon to behold and her voice is a refreshing and inviting one that might just alter the trajectory of AI and society. Show Notes: Artificial Intelligence (AI) (01:00) Love of the liminal spaces (03:20) Philosophy and connection to AI (07:30) Advaita Vedanta The science of creativity (10:00) Never run out of problems to solve (11:20) Supervised and Unsupervised ...

Dan Goods - design at NASA, life's throughlines of wonder, and the museum of awe

August 03, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 48 MB

Dan Goods is a leader among the community of creatives at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, so he's an imaginer among imaginers. A creator among creators. He's one of the most innovative minds I've come across, and someone who embodies selflessness and that most wonderful and contagious quality that is an insatiable curiosity.  Show Notes: How he decided to go to art school (08:00) Out of Control by Kevin Kelly (10:30) David Kremers (10:30) Long view of time  Roland Young (11:30) Teac...

Origins Season Four Trailer

July 26, 2021 08:00 - 4 minutes - 2.89 MB

During two years spent at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, curiosity-driven coffee conversations every morning with people who surprised and inspired me sparked an endless fascination with the pivotal moments across a life. Travels to leading art, science, engineering, and design institutions around the world nourished my passion and blossomed into the conversations you hear on Origins every other week.  On Origins we bring you conversations with thought-leaders across an eclectic mix of d...

Peter Turchi - Maps of the creative process and designs for life

May 04, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MB

Peter Turchi takes the art and act of writing as an irresistible analog for the art and the act of living. His work is part of a long tradition of fascination with processes of writers and he is among the masters at relating that process in a way that reaches all domains of society. For anyone who has ever thought about writing - the craft of it, its centrality in the human experience, its analog for life itself - this conversation is for you. Show Notes: How he began writing (04:30) Deal...

Ethan Zuckerman - A master-course in how to connect and a syllabus for a spacious life

April 20, 2021 08:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MB

Ethan Zuckerman is a voice that you need to know. He’s a pioneer for the use of media as a tool for social change, for cultivating international development with technology, and for the activation of new media technologies by activists. Ethan is uncommonly insightful about the currents and trends of our society. In this conversation he helps us understand the shape of our public discourse, and relates it to the world of today and tomorrow. Show Notes: Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - Sonde...

Richard D. Bartlett: Meaningful work, social fabric, and flourishing

April 06, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MB

We find ourselves in a world that feels incongruent and unfamiliar, changing socially and technologically at paces that expose conventional explanations as inadequate. Climate change, pandemics, political unrest have punctuated this new century and feel like clarion calls for new ways of being and being together. Enter Richard D. Bartlett — someone who has been a pioneer in thinking about these new modes. Show Notes: Apologetics (06:30) What is community? (06:50) The concept of flourishi...

Tomas Björkman - Nature, the Nordic Secret, and what is emerging

March 02, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MB

Tomas Björkman transcends science, business, philosophy, and social and personal change. Founder of the Ekskäret Foundation and coauthor of The Nordic Secret, Tomas’ story is a guide for anyone thinking about the future of society - a confluence of physics, macroeconomics, and entrepreneurship. Show Notes:  Ekskäret Foundation; Oak Island Foundation (05:45)  Origins of his union of scientific sensibility + entrepreneurship (07:00)  From academia to business (09:00)  Try to understand th...

Sarah Goodwin - How we need to communicate science in our changing world

February 09, 2021 09:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MB

Show Notes:  Storytelling (03:00)  Wonder Collaborative (04:30)  Jane Goodall (05:00)  Human Nature (CRISPR documentary)  Nobel Prize Winner Jennifer Doudna Ron Vale (06:00)  "Cell Hell” - Cell Biology and Genetics course at Middlebury  iBiology (09:00)  The power of words (09:45)  “Bringing good people to work with you” (10:30)  How do you build a team?  Creating community that cuts across disciplines (11:20)  "Antidisciplinary"  Elliot Kirschner - ‘morphing’ iBiology  Matthe...

Episode 28: Nora Bateson - Interconnectedness, warm data, and the vitality of things

January 05, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MB

Show Notes:  Small Arcs of Larger Circles (02:00)  Objectivity (05:45)  Relationships and interdependencies (07:00)  Smiling with your whole system (10:00)  Flip side of delight and seeing connections (11:00)  Language developed from your own frustration (13:30) Different kinds of teachers  Esalen Institute (15:30)  Diving more deeply into the arts and an exploration of culture (19:20)  Working with different groupings of people (19:40)  Describing things nonlinearly (20:30)  'Wa...

Episode 27: Ed Kearns - Exploring the ocean, generosity, and a culture of data

December 08, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MB

Show Notes:  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (02:00)  Rachel Carson’s words (03:30)  Scale of things and perspective  Pioneers of oceanography: Rossby and Montgomery (07:30)  Global conclusions from small data (09:30)  World Ocean Circulation Experiment (10:00)  Eye-opening expeditions (12:00)  All kinds of ways of ’seeing’ (14:00)  Evolution of distributing data (15:00)  Recording our experiences (17:00)  Books (19:45)  Burr by Gore Vidal   Iron Coffins b...

Episode 26: Alfred Nash - Insatiable curiosity, NASA and Team X, and the return of the Renaissance Man

November 23, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 51.8 MB

Show Notes:  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (05:15)  Mentors (07:20)  Building and leading teams (13:15)  Comfort with uncertainty (15:30)  Waleed Abdalati Origins episode (18:30)  What drew Nash to JPL (19:00)  Trajectories to JPL (20:00)  Why you need to read sociology books (22:00)  Being a Renaissance Person - curiosity across human endeavors (22:40)  T-shaped people (23:00)  Challenging yourself (29:45)  The change in mentality that comes with public service (32:50)  NASA J...

Episode 25: César Hidalgo - Information and complexity, learning and leading, rethinking technology in society

October 29, 2020 08:00 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MB

Show Notes:  Spiritual background of his childhood (05:30)  Discipline to do good work (06:10)  Mentor: Albert-László Barabási (09:30)  How do you demand excellence?  Musing on the competitive mentality (11:45)  Relevance of science is a very social dimension (12:30)  What he tells his students (13:30)  Adapting as an individual (14:45)  MIT Media Lab Collective Learning Group (17:00)  The Last Dance documentary (18:30)  The Playbook documentary series (18:40)  Complexity (21:00)...

Episode 24: Melanie Mitchell - The nature of intelligence and following your curiosity

August 17, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 46.2 MB

Show Notes:  Santa Fe Institute (2:00)  Alexander Hamilton biography by Ron Chernow (4:30)  The Universe and Dr. Einstein by Lincoln Barnett (5:45)  Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (7:30)  Martin Gardner Scientific American “Mathematical Games" (8:30)  Douglas Hofstadter (10:00)  John Holland (14:30)  Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems Copycat cognitive architecture (17:00)  Description   Fantastic discussion What sustains her in momen...

Episode 23: Giorgia Lupi - Harmonizing life and data through design

July 31, 2020 08:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MB

Show Notes:  Data-driven design firm Accurat Data humanism When she realized design was going to be a part of her life (07:00)  A ’new chapter’ in her life to fuse data and design (07:30)  What teachers told her that changed her (08:00)  Discovery of information design (09:00)  Rules versus limitations (10:15)  Rules as catalyzers of creativity  Pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone  Phases of dealing with COVID-19 (13:00)  Think about yourself in 2-3 years - who do you want t...

Episode 22: Elizabeth Anderson - A new equality and the philosopher for this moment in American life

July 17, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MB

Show Notes:  Marx Philosophic and Economic manuscript of 1844 (3:30)  Changed by exposure to systematic class privilege (7:10)  ‘Cubilcle’-ization revolution (8:10)  Normative aspects of economics and markets (11:30)  The American Economic Journal (15:00)  Being intellectually curious (16:00)  Hugh Lacey History of Philosophy and Science - Swarthmore (16:00)  Thomas Kuhn - Structure of Scientific Revolutions (18:30)  How scientific ‘controversies’ arise and how they are resolved  I...

Episode 21: Waleed Abdalati - NASA Chief Scientist and how to live a life led by your curiosity

June 30, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 46.3 MB

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) (06:00)  One of ten people to be ’NASA Chief Scientist'  Being led around by your curiosity  ‘Pulls' from our earliest ages in life (07:30)  The Arctic from space (10:00)  The ’space-based perspective'  ’No better compass than your emotions’ (11:30)  Constructive emotions  Opportunities to connect mind and body (14:00)  Love of career and love of family (23:30)  “It has to give you energy and not drain energy fro...

Episode 20: Cecilia Conrad - Steward of the MacArthurs Genius Grants, 100 Million Dollars, and Transcendent Empowerment

June 04, 2020 08:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MB

Show Notes:  Privilege brings with it a sense of responsibility (4:00)  Empowering others - "nurturing, supporting, and uplifting" (5:30)  “Talent in unexpected locations"  Levels of impact: individual and systems (7:45)  Carrying people with you (8:20)  POSSE Foundation (8:40)  Compensatory and Distributive Justice (9:00)  What she tells her students (10:45)  Most proud of integrating race and gender into economics programs (11:00)  What we are missing in the discourses of race an...

Episode 19: Kristian Lum - Lifelong curiosity and Criminal Justice Reform through data

May 17, 2020 19:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MB

Show Notes:  Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) (1:40)  The contagious nature of imprisonment paper (1:50)  Value of community colleges (6:30)  Professor Dan Balaguy at Sierra College (7:20)  Professor Richard Stong at Rice University - Combinatorics (8:30)   Coming to an understanding of one’s career and curiosity (10:20)   How can we make the public more data literate (i.e., numeracy)? (12:15)  Maintain a healthy skepticism of numbers - think more critically (see Seth Godin’s...

Episode 18: José Cotto - Creator, inspirer, and cultural entrepreneur across scales

April 15, 2020 08:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MB

Show Notes:  Grew up knowing possibility and that people create things (8:30)  Being around art, there was always another reality that could be made (9:00)  How do you sit with tension? (10:00)  The thing that allows me to maintain balance in the present - keep moving at the pace that feels most fulfilling and productive in the moment  Find comfort in the tension   Poetry is complex enough to hold the tension of human experience - pair with Brené Brown's thoughts (12:15)  Love of poet...

Episode 18: José Cotto - Creator, inspirer, and cultural entrepreneur across scales

April 15, 2020 08:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MB

Show Notes:  Grew up knowing possibility and that people create things (8:30)  Being around art, there was always another reality that could be made (9:00)  How do you sit with tension? (10:00)  The thing that allows me to maintain balance in the present - keep moving at the pace that feels most fulfilling and productive in the moment  Find comfort in the tension   Poetry is complex enough to hold the tension of human experience - pair with Brené Brown's thoughts (12:15)  Love of poet...

Episode 17: Brian Janosch - Redefining creativity in all spaces

March 25, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 48.6 MB

Show Notes:  Cultivate Wit (03:00)  New Glarus Spotted Cow Beer (03:40)  Lambeau Field - Green Bay, Wisconsin (04:00)  Pausing in your activities to recognize what it is you are actually drawing joy from (07:20)  Surprising ways to learn about entrepreneurship (11:00)  Common experience and connection (20:30)  The Onion (21:00)  Creative process at The Onion (25:30)  TED Talk: What I learned from writing jokes for The Onion (27:40)  Creative collaboration (29:30)  Two tracks of th...

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