Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
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.
Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
Alicia Juarrero - the philosopher who will change how you think about complexity
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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)
- Aristotelian four causes (22:30)
- Emergence (27:40)
- Network thinking (28:20)
- 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
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- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series