Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

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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Malka Older makes a life at the crossroads of our existing and future worlds. Between research into the sociology of organizations, on-the-ground work in humanitarian aid and disaster risk reduction, and acclaimed writing of speculative and science fiction, Older brilliantly, beautifully, uncommonly lives the great paradox in front of us all: to hold at once the two truths of lived experience and imagined future. 

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Show Notes:
the immigrant sensibility (05:00)
belonging (07:20)
exile (09:00)
Danielle Allen's theory of justice (15:00)
A Paradise Built in Hellby Rebecca Solnit (16:00)
Malka's work in the international space (16:20)
Global Voices (19:15)
Where are you REALLY from? (19:40) 
The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (20:30)
'Great Asking' (22:30)
Positionality (23:00)
Mu - unask the question (23:20)
the opportunity in disaster (27:10)
2004 Boxing Day Indian Ocean Tsunami (31:00)
psychological distance (34:40)
Malka's book ...And Other Disasters(35:30)
the importance of improvisation (43:00)
David Whyte - the conversational nature of reality (46:30)
Malka's book Infomocracy (49:00)
the adjacent possible (53:45)
The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han (59:15)
The Sociological Imaginationby C Wright Mills (59:30)
what does it mean to flourish? (59:45)
the generative narrative of our time (01:08:30)
Lightning round (01:02:00)Book: The Lord of the Rings
Passion: Hearing a new language
Heart sing: Global Voices
Screwed up: relationship

Find Malka online:Wikipedia
Arizona State Profile
LinkedIn

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Biologist, philosopher, educator, facilitator, and historian of science Mette Miriam Böll is embodiment of the kind of life that emerges when we accept, recognize, and revere our profound interconnectedness. Her scholarship as her life are nourishment for returning to the task we are all called to: to human well, at once simple and complex, individual and civilizational. 

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Show Notes:
Tibetan Book of the Dead (04:20)
Dzogchen - Tibetan Buddhist Teachings (05:00)
John P. Milton (05:40)
drawing her out on interconnectedness (12:30)
Krishnamurti (17:00)
Systems awareness and change processes (17:25)
Polycrisis (17:35)
life is a creative journey (18:20)
John Paul Lederach on Origins (19:30)
systems thinking (20:15)
Jesper Hoffmeyer (20:30)
Peter Senge (22:00)
Why most systems change efforts fail (22:40)
industrial PhD program Denmark (e.g., here) (32:10)
Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society by Peter Senge (34:00)
compassionate systems framework (37:30)
Otto Scharmer (37:30)
compassionate systems workshops (42:40)
generative social fields (44:00)
Francisco Varela: The Logic of Paradise (53:00)
"Keeping Quiet" by Pablo Neruda (59:00)
Lightning round (58:30)Book: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Passion: Regenerative futures field
Heart Sing: Digital detox
Screwed up: Practicality 

Find Mette online:Center for Systems Awareness

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Dr. Dan Jay has a mission to inspire where art and science meet. His life has been spent in the liminal and generative space between and among these domains of inquiry that are too often considered separate, distinct, even opposing. Yet, it is transformative creativity only possible from the co-mingling and conversation of art and science that we seem to be called to in the 21st century. 

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Show Notes:
Falling Upward by Richard Rohr (05:20)
Hinduism four stages of life (05:50)
Society of Fellows (10:00)
David Hubel (12:20)
Will Ryman (13:00)
Dan's hypercube series (20:00)
self-emptying (24:30)
Why we need an academic career path that combines science and art (27:00)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (28:00)
Arthur Zajonc - 'something for the light to fall on' (31:00)
Enfold initiative (32:00)
collective over community (32:15)
Ancient Greek symposium (35:00)
Émile Durkheim - collective effervescence (38:30)
Joie de vivre (38:30)
vulnerability and frailty (41:30)
compassionate leadership (42:40)
flourishing (45:30)
TS Eliot "The Four Quartets" (46:30)
Souq al Arabi (48:20)
 "all flourishing is mutual" Robin Wall Kimmerer (52:00)
encounters with flourishing (52:20)
nuanced conception of flourishing (52:30)
Lightning round (53:30)Book: Civilisation by Kenneth Clark 
Passion: spirituality
Heart sing: inspiration for his mission
Screwed up: failed marriage 

Find Dan online:http://www.danjayart.com/
https://smfa.tufts.edu/directory/dan-jay

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Zachary Ugolnik has for years been charting a new path that refuses the tired and inanimate narrative about the separateness of science and spirituality, reason and religion. In his life we find rich possibility when those old illusory dichotomies are discarded, and from that possibility perhaps new wisdom for creating a society full of care and flourishing, one that embraces our inherent needfulness and borrows from theology, ecology, and the social sciences. 

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Show Notes:
locate shared spaces of curiosity across disciplines (11:50)
Émile Durkheim and collective effervescence (13:45)
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University (14:10 and 16:20)
through lines between religion and social science (13:45)
Victor and Edith Turner  communitas (15:00)
Simone Weil decreation (18:30)
re-membering (22:00)
Zach's book: The Collective Self (18:30)
Theater of War (24:00)
Byzantine iconography and perspective (26:00)
Picasso "Le Taureau" (26:20)
The Social Science of Caregiving (27:30)
Flourishing Knowledge Commons (27:45)
Margaret Levi communities of fate (27:50)
"Mobilizing in the Interest of Others" by Levi and Ugolnik (30:00)
Buddhism and interdependence (31:50)
Collective action problems (34:40)
flourishing systems (37:30)
Ilya Prigogine and dissipative structures (39:30)
Danielle Allen (42:15)
philanthropy (44:30)
Strother School of Radical Attention (52:30)
Andrei Rublev (52:50)
Daniel Kahneman (53:50)
Syriac term Iḥidāyā (55:00)
Lightning Round (57:30):Book: The Way of the Pilgrimand The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō
Passion: travel
Heart sing: swimming with my kids
Screwed up: eulogy 

Find Zach online:https://zacharyugolnik.com/

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