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
Julio Ottino - chaos, the capacity for emergence, and timeless ideas
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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.
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Show Notes:
- Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka influences (07:10)
- his first book: The Mathematical Foundations of Mixing(08:00)
- emergence (14:20)
- cultivating patience and tolerating tension (21:00)
- Oliver Sacks (24:30)
- hardest thing to teach (25:00)
- specialists vs. generalists (26:00)
- Dario Robleto at the Block Museum (29:00)
- enrich your set of possible ideas (30:00)
- mental library (30:15)
- whole brain engineering (32:00)
- Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) (38:00)
- Emergent disciplines: synthetic biology, computational social science, finite Earth
- measuring complexity (43:0)
- capacity for emergence
- science of science (44:30)
- Luis Amaral (45:30)
- Daniel Diermeier (45:30)
- Dashun Wang (47:40)
- Brian Uzzi (48:30)
- Noshir Contractor (50:00)
- Nexus book (51:30)
- An epistemology of collectivity (54:15)
- the myth of the lone genius (54:30)
- Primo Pensiero - first thought (57:00)
- Find Julio online:
- Lightning round (01:01:00)
- Book: Collected Fictionsby Jorge Luis Borges
- Passion: documenting his life in cartoons
- Heart sing: limits of artificial intelligence
- Screwed up: managing people
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
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