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

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)
• The Self-Organizing Universe by Erich Jantsch (15:00)
• Dave Snowden Cynefin Framework (20:00)
  • Dave on Origins
• Aristotelian four causes (22:30)
• Emergence (27:40)
• Network thinking (28:20)
  • Barabási Albert-László
  • Steven Strogatz
• Mereology (31:00)
• Order Out of Chaos by Prigogine, Stengers, and Toffler (32:15)
• Complicated vs complex (38:00)
• John Holland "fail safe and safe fail" (40:00)
• Graceful Extensibilityby David Woods (41:20)
• Vector Analytica (43:20)
• Healthy relationality (54:00)
• Trust (59:15)
• Danielle Allen (01:01:00)
• Flourishing Commons newsletter (01:02:00)
  • Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin 
  • Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom 
• Lightning round (01:03:20)
  • Book: Order Out of Chaos
  • Passion: reading broadly
  • Heart sing: how design creates context that also creates affordances
    • The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman 
    • User Friendly by Cliff Kuang
  • Screwed up: attention to ideas over people-orientated application of those ideas
• Find Alicia online:
  • Website
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  
  • Alicia’s playlist