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
Albert-László Barabási - Network science, breakthrough orientation, and a life made around discovery
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Season 7
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Episode 2
Albert-László Barabási thinks in networks and his scholarship, as his life, is embodiment of the explorative, imaginative, and generative nature of networks. It would be difficult to imagine a person better suited to steward us through the innate and seemingly universal tendency of things to connect to each other and all of its implications.
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Show Notes:
- Preferential attachment (10:00)
- What he tells his students (13:30)
- Breakthroughs (14:00)
- 'Shelf Time' (14:30)
- The Science of Science (19:00)
- Bridging (network science) (19:00)
- His first and second papers in network science (22:00)
- Danielle Allen (28:30)
- David Lazer (https://lazerlab.net/home) 'network based decision making' (31:00)
- Hélène Landemore epistemic democracy (32:00)
- Northeastern University Network Science Institute (35:30)
- Center for Complex Network Research (36:00)
- Alessandro Vespignani (37:00)
- János Kertész (38:00)
- Jane Hirshfield "Let Them Not Say" (42:00)
- Joan Didion "I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means." (44:30)
- His writing practice (44:30)
- His routines (45:00)
- Commonplace book (53:00)
- Robert K Merton "Singletons and Multiples in Scientific Discovery" (56:30)
- What does it mean to flourish? (59:00)
- Lightning Round (01:03:30):
- Book: Isaac Asimov The Foundation Trilogy
- Passion: art (Hidden Patterns exhibition; 150 years of Nature)
- Heart sing: Network medicine
- Screwed up: Failing to invest in Google
- Find László online:
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
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