“[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
"The entire incentive system (...) is not based on changing the world for the better or coming up with useful inventions. It's based on the number of papers you get published in high prestige journals." Here's Rupert Sheldrake on the "straitjacket" of institutional science… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ivka-X9RfI
"The vast majority of Americans don't have professions. They have jobs. (...) As a society, we could think more about how to create sources of meaning and fulfillment for those people." -- Rob Henderson Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8tgCpt12zU&t=2s
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of 9 books and over 100 scientific papers. A critic of what he sees as the scientific establishment’s dogmatic dedication to materialism, he is perhaps best known for his theory of “morphic resonance,” via which information and activity can be transferred across space…
"Whatever is going on up here inside you, that's meaningless. What actually matters is the action you take." -- Rob Henderson on the difference between motivation and discipline... Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8tgCpt12zU
Rob Henderson — Troubled Description: Friend-of-the-show Rob Henderson returns to discuss his powerful, moving and important debut book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class (published TODAY). We discuss Rob’s experience of the American foster care and adoption system, the life-changing impact of the military, the rise…
Alec Stapp's think tank, The Institute For Progress, works with policymakers across the political spectrum to achieve progress in the United States. Alec gives a masterclass on how to FRAME important policy choices in terms of OUTCOMES that voters care about… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0EE-pBrpPw
"US soft power comes through being the global R&D lab. And the more we can do of that, the better we can benefit the entire world." Alec Stapp explains how The Institute for Progress identifies common ground between the Silicon Valley and DC mindsets… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0EE-pBrpPw
“If you want the biggest bang for your buck as a policy wonk, as someone who's working in this field, US federal policy is the largest lever you possibly can have." — Alec Stapp Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0EE-pBrpPw
Title: Alec Stapp — Progress is a Policy Choice Description: Alec Stapp is the co-founder of the Institute for Progress, a non-partisan innovation policy think tank aiming to “accelerate scientific, technological and industrial progress while safeguarding humanity’s future.” He joins the show to discuss how to achieve change in the…
"I encourage people to tinker more, to produce more. There's a large amount of learning that is impossible to get by reading." — Rohit Krishnan explains why we should all spend more time tinkering... Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYM0SUIQtV8
"We are all centaurs already. We live most of our lives on digital technology connected with other human beings. We are part of some weird form of a hive mind, and we are all cyborgs." — Rohit Krishnan Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYM0SUIQtV8
What impact will synthetic data have on AI development? “I think synthetic data will help dramatically in paradigm progress. I don't see how it can help it shift in any meaningful paradigm shift.” — Rohit Krishnan Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYM0SUIQtV8
"if you ask us to do the same thing twice, the chances that we will do it exactly the same, the way an old-fashioned robot would have done it, is not very high." Rohit Krishnan explains why AI is a "fuzzy processor…” Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYM0SUIQtV8