Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
70 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsOrigins 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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Episodes
Episode 18: José Cotto - Creator, inspirer, and cultural entrepreneur across scales
April 15, 2020 08:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBShow 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 MBShow 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...
Episode 16: Martin Storksdieck - Visionary of lifelong learning
March 13, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBShow Notes: Institute for Learning Innovation (02:20) Those that have given language and expression to Martin in his life (15:00) Art - Die Brücke impressionists Art - Mid-century modernism Poetry and philosophy - Schopenhauer Poetry vs. Science as forms for expression (17:00) Rainer Maria Rilke (18:00) Questions are a mighty form of words Wellsprings of creativity and growth Waldorf schools (21:00) Ecological physiology (24:45) Chaos: Making a new science by James Gleic...
Episode 15: Rachel Young - Designing cultures of learning
February 13, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBShow Notes: Breakthrough Collaborative (3:10) Education as a vehicle for exploring the edges of social justice (6:00) Passion to give people what they need to be successful (8:20) Teach for America (10:00) Qualities of a good mentor: patience, clarity, guide through learning moments (12:10) Reasons for loving learning (13:20) How Rachel sustains her energy (14:50) How to decide what to say no to (17:20) Leave yourself room to discover IDEO (18:15) IDEO CEO Sandy Speiche...
Episode 14: Antti Pulkkinen - The art of explosive learning and blazing new trails in science
December 28, 2019 18:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBShow Notes: Weather in outer space (1:30) Explosive learning through taking advantage of breadth and depth of knowledge (2:20) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (2:40) Mentors: Ari Viljanen (5:20) Risto Pirjola (5:30) Olaf Amm (5:40) Hannu Koskinen (9:50) Geomagnetically induced currents and effect of space weather on the power grid (5:40) Approach to mentorship (6:00) Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) (10:00) Building diverse networks (21:30) Organic vs. delibe...
Episode 13: Aoife Van Linden Tol - Explosions of art in science, and science in art
November 01, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBShow Notes: Christine Atha (10:30) “Dropping bombs on the landscape” (13:30) Land art (14:30) Michael Heizer “Displaced Replaced Mass” (16:10) Is this art? (19:00) Take out the human completely, take out what it means to anybody and try to imagine this thing existing on its own (21:00) Imagine what it means to be the object, to be the force (21:20) How chaos and order is an analogy for science and art (23:30) Why the human condition responds to explosives in amazing ...
Episode 12: Rajesh Gupta - The Didactic Data Scientist and Tireless Teacher
October 18, 2019 01:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBShow Notes: Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (2:11) IEEE Computer Society 2019 W. Wallace McDowell Award (3:30) “Trying to do things in the wrong way” and having an internal compass to know when to redirect oneself (4:45) Responding to how you are being seen (5:30) Contradiction a deeply personal experience and growing comfortable with ambiguity (7:30) Reasoning through uncertainty (7:45) Breaking down physical barriers to change culture (9:40) Reason through that which cann...
Episode 12: Rajesh Gupta - The Didactic Data Scientist and Tireless Change Maker
October 18, 2019 01:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBShow Notes: Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (2:11) IEEE Computer Society 2019 W. Wallace McDowell Award (3:30) “Trying to do things in the wrong way” and having an internal compass to know when to redirect oneself (4:45) Responding to how you are being seen (5:30) Contradiction a deeply personal experience and growing comfortable with ambiguity (7:30) Reasoning through uncertainty (7:45) Breaking down physical barriers to change culture (9:40) Reason through that which cann...
Episode 11: Bill Diamond - The nexus of Silicon Valley and science
September 07, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBShow Notes: The SETI Institute (1:15 and 6:10) FDL program (NASA Frontier Development Lab) (4:30 and 36:00) Jesuit thinking (5:00) Brother Guy J. Consolmagno (6:20) Take advantage of the breadth of knowledge available to you and cut across the boundaries of knowledge (7:30) Early mentor, Ken Nill, and how he altered Bill’s trajectory (12:00) Value of having both technical and managerial skills (14:10) Create a ‘powerful combination of skills’ (14:20) First mentor: high scho...
Episode 10: Nicky Fox - Trailblazer of Trans-disciplinary at NASA
August 29, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBShow Notes: Polar mission, Solar-Terrestrial Physics Science Initiative, Van Allen Probes mission, and Parker Solar Probe mission (01:05) NASA Heliophysics Division (01:20) Nicky at South by Southwest (03:20) Nicky on the TEDx stage (03:35) Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle (04:35) Solar energy effects on GNSS (06:50) Idea of assessing your presentations from the questions you receive (08:25) Power of ‘I don’t know’ (08:50) ask questions to discover (12:20) Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Episode 09: Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo - Science's Humanist Entrepreneur
August 08, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBShow Notes: Andrés’ first website: “a small trip through Columbian music” (04:10) Cosmos (TV Show and Book) by Carl Sagan (05:50) Jesuit Ignatian spiritual retreats in reference to Ignatius Loyola (08:00 and 11:15) How do you create space to listen to yourself? (13:30) NASA Frontier Development Laboratory - FDL (15:51) ‘Deep Learning’ (17:00) What makes a team fail? (18:00) Enhancing the effectiveness of team science 'Treat colleagues as customers’ (22:30) ‘Fixing problems...
Episode 08: Kirk Borne - Data science storyteller and influencer
May 31, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBShow Notes: Geodesics (12:40) Booz Allen Hamilton (21:00) Kirk ’surprised’ himself through the cognitive ability test at a job interview - the idea of surprising ourselves through exposing ourselves to new ideas (25:00) "Cognitive view of the whole, and not just a narrow silo’ed view - the bias buster” - systems thinking (26:40) Underfitting and Overfitting (27:00) Data Science: the application of scientific discovery from data (30:00) ‘Miracle Year of Physics’ - Albert Einste...
Episode 07: Matt Russo - DJ to the Cosmos
May 17, 2019 19:00 - 45 minutes - 20.7 MBShow Notes: Matt’s bands (1:30): Tiny Danza and RVNNERS Being singularly focused versus pursuing multiple curiosities. Tim Ferriss blog on one way to think about this: Push vs. Pull Processes Sonification (9:03) TEDx talk University of Toronto (10:12) Matt’s interaction with the six-year old fan of his work (11:00) Matt discusses acting almost unconsciously during his TEDx talk because of his preparation - this might be similar to a ‘flow state’ (discussed by Dr. Csikszentmihalyi...
Episode 06: Chris Mattmann - NASA's data scientist
May 04, 2019 01:00 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MBShow Notes: Apache Open Source Software Foundation (4:00) Apache projects: Tika (26:30), Nutch (15:10), Hadoop (36:05) Chris’ resume and the ‘web of activities’ (7:15) “It’s all got to relate to one another”-Chris (7:15) Tim Ferriss’ scratch your own itch “JPL” (8:05) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory USC ’systems perspective’ (8:25) ‘Architect software’ (8:35) ‘Big software systems’ (8:53) Search engines (9:43) Similarities between web search and science data search (11:56) ...
Episode 05: Kerry Larkin - Making space for a beautiful life
April 12, 2019 04:00 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MBShow Notes: Kerry’s quilt kickstarter (~3:00) Vipassanā mediation/retreats (~5:30) Sitting practice meditation (~12:55) We discuss morning routines and I’m a complete nerd for people’s routines - here are a few examples of morning routines from other thought-leaders (~14:40) Sam Harris morning guided meditation (~17:05) Julia Cameron The Artist’s Way (~22:00) Sam Harris guided meditation app (~23:00) Auburn University Rural Studio (~19:15) Director of Rural Studio and Kerry’...
Trailer - Origins - Origins Series
March 04, 2019 05:00 - 1 minute - 493 KBOrigins 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. Listen to the trailer now!
Episode 04: Professor Jayachandran - The ionosphere entrepreneur
March 04, 2019 05:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBShow Notes: The Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Network (CHAIN) - http://chain.physics.unb.ca/chain/ Jay’s research group: http://radio.physics.unb.ca/jayachandran/ Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumba_Equatorial_Rocket_Launching_Station Books mentioned: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Alice in Quantumland Authors mentioned: Henning Mankell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He...
Episode 04: Professor Jayachandran - The ionosphere entrepreneur
March 04, 2019 05:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBShow Notes: The Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Network (CHAIN) - http://chain.physics.unb.ca/chain/ Jay’s research group: http://radio.physics.unb.ca/jayachandran/ Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumba_Equatorial_Rocket_Launching_Station Books mentioned: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Alice in Quantumland Authors mentioned: Henning Mankell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He...
Episode 03: Jacob Bortnik - Pioneer of space physics
March 04, 2019 05:00 - 51 minutes - 23.4 MBShow Notes: Work-Life balance vs. alignment (7:00) Link to follow-up on: https://bit.ly/2SnMPIz TED talk about the silent man (31:30): John Francis (https://www.ted.com/talks/john_francis_walks_the_earth?language=en) We talk a lot about being quiet and the various forms and meanings of that. Here’s a link to a TED Radio Hour episode about ‘Quiet’: https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/357846020/quiet Writers mentioned: (44:30): CS Lewis (http://www.cslewis.com/us/) (44:4...
Episode 02: Lika Guhathakurta - Space Visionary
March 04, 2019 05:00 - 52 minutes - 24 MBShow Notes: STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) mission: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/main/index.html Living With a Star Program: https://lws.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Jack Eddy: https://aas.org/obituaries/john-allen-eddy-1931-2009 The Jack Eddy Fellowship: https://cpaess.ucar.edu/heliophysics/jack-eddy What is Heliophysics? (4:45 & 38:00) https://science.nasa.gov/heliophysics What is a magnetosphere? (41:45) https://science.nasa.gov/heliophysics/focus-areas/magnetosp...