We'll be releasing the next Great Reshuffle Video: The Future of Work in the next couple of weeks. Here's a sneak peek at one of the smaller segments on how to prepare for the future of Work
"[T]he mundane bullshit will cover every square inch you give it." Here's Alex Komoroske on finding the boldness to escape busyness… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLNwZvekes
"I really believe that we have maxims like we have because they have been compressed, compressed, compressed, all across human time." -- Jim and Alex Komoroske discuss the 'Hallmark Card Fallacy’… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLNwZvekes
"So many people, I think, are driven by this insecurity of, 'People will know I'm dumb or will know I don't know what I'm doing.' And there's something so liberating in saying, 'Yeah, I have no idea what I'm doing!' I don't think any of us do really." -- Alex…
Alex Komoroske has spent his career studying, writing about, and working in complex adaptive systems. He has published multiple essays on topics like Schelling points in organizations, why debate should be collaborative, and how to ensure resilient growth in harsh environments. Alex has also worked as a product manager and…
Why do business and investing experts read so widely? Cedric Chin explains… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AjKoWIvfA
"Klein says that experts who become great... learn quite early on that every time they update something, they need to stop, take a step back and say, 'what else does this mean that I need to reevaluate?'" Here's Cedric Chin on how to avoid cognitive dissonance… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AjKoWIvfA
“At some point, if you do well in business enough, your company throws off cash, and how you allocate that capital actually matters." Cedric Chin explains why business success eventually requires an investor mindset… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AjKoWIvfA
“[Y]ou should continue to spend energy questioning the mistakes that you're making, even if you're making very little mistakes." Here's Cedric Chin on the relationship between mistakes and greatness… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AjKoWIvfA
Accelerating Business Expertise Description: Cedric Chin is a writer, researcher and operator whose Commoncog newsletter is dedicated to finding useful, practical ways to accelerate business expertise. He joins us to discuss some of the most potentially transformative concepts he’s uncovered, from the business expertise triad to naturalistic decision making. Important…
"Nobody else can create what you see in your head. Either you're going to do it, or it's not gonna get done.” ~ Devon Eriksen Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COwtRiEZ3k
"[I]f you could work out all of the technology a 100% in your science fiction novel, you would not be writing science fiction novels... you would be starting a tech company." Here's Devon Eriksen on how to write believable hard sci-fi… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COwtRiEZ3k
"[W]here gardeners will write from front to back, architects will write from general to specific." ~ Devon Eriksen on the "two categories of writers”… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COwtRiEZ3k
“[P]eople's ability to know what they want is limited by their ability to imagine that which does not exist." ~ Devon Eriksen explains why he values a specific kind of reader feedback… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COwtRiEZ3k
Devon Eriksen always wanted to be a writer. As a child, he was persuaded to abandon his aspirations in favor of a career in software engineering. Two decades later, he retired to finally fulfil his ambition to write imaginative hard-science fiction in the vein of authors like Asimov, Heinlein and…
Here's a sneak peek at the next Great Reshuffle video - The Future of Work. To understand how the future of work will evolve, we also need to understand how cities can evolve. Jim discusses ways that cities might change in response to changing employment trends.
"Acumen's theory of change starts with people." -- Jacqueline Novogratz explains how Acumen is leaning into its people-first theory of change... Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2eNLOEjSEc
"I see so often on social media a desire to be affirmed in what you know is right." Here's Jacqueline Novogratz on the role of moral leadership in the age of moral righteousness… For the full episode, check out the link in our bio: @infinitel88ps
"Too many people sit at the starting blocks wondering what their purpose is, waiting to do something. And I've learned that purpose doesn't come to people waiting on the sidelines. We find our purpose by following the thread of our curiosity." -- Jacqueline Novogratz
"I often say that trust is the rarest currency that we have. It's really easy to lose. It's hard to build." -- Jacqueline Novogratz Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2eNLOEjSEc
Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder of Acumen, a nonprofit impact investment fund “changing the way the world tackles poverty by investing in companies, leaders and ideas.” As well as founding Acumen in 2001, Jacqueline is a public speaker and best-selling author. She also sits on multiple philanthropic boards. Her latest…
"I think our minds are extended in every act of perception. We look at a distant star, our mind is reaching out to touch that star, literally over astronomical distances." Rupert Sheldrake discusses the extended mind… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ivka-X9RfI
"I think that the revolution is going to have to be triggered by people outside institutional science rather than from inside..." Rupert Sheldrake outlines what it would take to achieve a "phase change" in the sciences. Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ivka-X9RfI
"Most real scientific discoveries come from intuitive imaginative leaps." -- Rupert Sheldrake Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ivka-X9RfI