Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

The Great Askers is an occasional Origins Podcast extra, where we nourish a sensibility of asking and cultivate great askers by exploring it with people who have singularly practiced it. Find the inaugural episode here. 
So we occasionally on this show add to a series called ‘the great askers’ to center the philosophy and practice of asking questions. We do this by talking with the people asking the most meaningful, searching, even troubling questions and on their process for constructing those questions.
Here, the conversation continues with scientist Julio Ottino and philosopher C. Thi Nguyen. 

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Show Notes:
Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (06:00)
Where do our concepts come from? (06:20)
Leonardo magazine (09:00)
Reiner Knizia (19:20)
mu (32:20)
Socrates' irony (33:00)
value capture (38:00)
art and technology and science (40:30)
theory about the difference between art and science (45:20)
Bernard Suits (47:30)
Victor Vasarely (56:00)
1905-1925 a pivotal period (57:20)
Autotelic experience (59:30)
technical activity v. game activity (01:00:00)
break-with v. breakthrough (01:04:00)
the flourishing of science (01:06:30)
The Spirit of Hope by Byung-Chul Han (01:10:45)
What are your hopeful questions? (01:11:20)
Maria Lugones (01:12:00)
Find Thi online: Website
Find Julio online: Website
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CORRECTION: Season Nine will commence on July 7, not June 30
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Hello friends, a new season of Origins arrives on July 7!
I can't genuinely describe my experience in the world right now without the term confusion. 
Confused in a deep sense: feeling a growing distance between the world as I experience it and the world we seem to be creating together.
The appropriate response to bewilderment is not certainty but deeper conversation. That has always been the purpose of Origins: A person bewildered by the world turning toward another person and asking: How do you live here?
So strangely, out of vulnerability there is capacity. Out of confusion there is hope.
The episodes in this season are meant to be companions in that work. They are certainly companions in mine.
What we do now will be oriented toward creating those sites at which vulnerability becomes capacity: belonging and solidarity. I hope each episode becomes an encounter with flourishing. 
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The fundamental challenges confronting humanity are not the failure of particular nations or institutions or businesses or civil organizations, but rather the disconnect between our economic, political, and social systems. Dennis Snower and David Sloan Wilson, converging economics and evolution, have a plan to ameliorate the decoupling of economic prosperity and political success from social and environmental prosperity, a decoupling that destabilizes our planet.

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Show Notes:
paper that frames this conversation: "Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Economics"
British postal strike (09:20)
Amos Tversky (10:30)
Sloan Wilson (11:00)
Theodosius Dobzhansky (12:00)
This is Water (15:00)
David Whyte (16:00)
Thomas Singer (18:20)
Evolution Institute (19:20)
Eric Beinhocker (20:00)
Mont Pèlerin Society (21:00)
Philip Anderson More is Different (26:00)
rethinking wealth (26:30)
multilevel selection (29:30)
Elinor and Vincent Ostrom (31:00)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (42:10)
Thich Nhat Hanh and engaged Buddhism (01:00:40)
flourishing (01:08:10)
Find Dennis online: https://www.global-solutions-initiative.org/person/dennis-j-snower/
Find David online: davidsloanwilson.world/
Recommended books:Dennis: Tolstoy and the great works of literature
David: Teilhard de Chardin and people/places achieving positive cultural change 'hiding in plain sight'

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Guru Madhavan reverences the world and all that is in it. Guru is an engineer, but his conception of engineering is more vast than we typically assign to the role. To it he brings a systems consciousness that widens the field in recognition of its entanglement with the social and cultural.
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Show Notes:
David Sloan Wilson on Origins (02:05)
systems consciousness (06:40)
problematizing the term 'technology' (11:00)
jirnoddhara - 'repairing what is worn' (13:30)
Charles Vest (15:20)
Applied Minds Guru's first book (21:20)
'lessons from the scrapheap' (24:00)
Spanning Space by Claude Claremont (25:00)
Cloaca Maxima (29:00)
Wicked Problems by Guru (31:00)
"How to be a poet" by Wendell Berry (31:00)
"The Grind Challenges" by Guru (33:00)
Evolution for Everyone by David Sloan Wilson (41:50)
Flourishing Salons and the event Guru referred to (43:00)
FOCUS (45:20)
Elinor Ostrom (46:30)
The Disuniting of America by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (55:20)
Paul Virilio's 'inverted miracle' (56:30)
What does it mean to flourish? (57:30)
Why War? letters between Einstein and Freud (01:00:30)
Lightning round (01:05:10)Book: The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
Passion: cubist painting
Heart sing: latest bookThe Wisdom of the Desert by Thomas Merton

Screwed up: communication

Find Guru online: LinkedIn
'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  Guru’s playlist

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Francesca Samsel is crafting a new language for our world. That is, she crosses art, science, and visualization to open new ways of understanding and engaging with the natural world, not just visually but across the sensorial spectrum. She recognizes the inextricably social element to this, too, and her work raises our capacity to collaborate, and in the process, alters our sense of what scientific inquiry is and can (and perhaps needs to) be. Her work as her life are teachers we need for the world we are walking into. 

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Show Notes:
vulnerability (11:30)
problem with the 'follow your passion' path (14:20)
Ganymede (15:00)
what she tells her students (15:50)
art-science collaboration (16:00)
Santa Fe Institute (21:20)
James (Jim) Ahrens (24:00)
Craig Tweedie (25:20)
visual structure to see the complexity in data (29:00)
Isaac Asimov 'that's funny' (30:20)
the need for scientific breakthrough (31:20)
Lia Halloran - your hand will physically guide you the way to breakthrough (31:30)
the only mark that you determine as an artist is the first one (33:00)
delivery-oriented society (34:30)
"Stewardship of Global Collective Behavior" by Joseph Bak-Coleman et al. (40:00)
visual vocabulary work (42:00)
Art-Sci-Vis Lab at UT Austin (43:20)
flourishing (47:00)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (51:45)
lightning round (48:00)Artist: Jon McCormick (work called "Fifty Sisters")
Passion: geoscience and the complexity you find when you walk out of the door
Heart sing: fused glass, ice, and rock
Screwed up: obliviousness to colleagues

Find Francesca online:Website 
UT Austin

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