Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan Ryan McGranaghan
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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.
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Agustín Fuentes - A master class in anthropology and a life lived among complexity
Agustín Fuentes reads a multi-million year history of our world, a student of its myriad lessons that often subvert unquestioned modern narratives and the problematic ways we've arrived at them. His is an anthropological, ecological, refreshingly unalloyed sensibility, an uncommon concoction whose life of scholarship and insight illuminate what we all might need to cultivate for the world we are walking into. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:Positionality (...
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Albert-László Barabási - Network science, breakthrough orientation, and a life made around discovery
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. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:Preferential attachment (10:00)What he tells his students (13:30)Breakthroughs (14:00)'Sh...
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Origins and Ongoingness: Thoughts on Season Seven
Hello friends, a new season of Origins is coming NEXT WEEK. Last season of this show was a season of flourishing. The episodes ahead we not be a season of something in particular but a movement toward process, toward open-endedness, toward unsettledness; of discipline, of intellect, of being. Great scientific breakthroughs are discoveries of process, and the great discoveries of society and our own lives will be the same. Thank you for listening and I'm excited to explore together each ...
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The Great Askers (episode 1): Sara Hendren and Krista Tippett
Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons Newsletter and the post introducing Great AskingShow Notes:Sara Hendren's Origins Conversationstart of a living conversation (05:20)Ignorance by Stuart Firestein (06:00)questions are the oxygen of imagination (08:00)curiosity is a moral muscle (10:10)The Division of Cognitive Laborby Philip Kitcher (09:20)Sara's substack (10:40)Howard Gardner (11:20)Participatory readiness Danielle Allen (16:40)Living the Questions with Krista (23:30)questions and a ...
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James Evans - Cultural observatories, knowledge communities, and a life resplendent with ideas
James Evans' life is one resplendent with ideas. His trajectory into research and learning in areas as wide as network science, collective intelligence, computational social science, and even how knowledge is created, is as irreducible as it is exhilarating, and is a beacon in disorienting times marked by seemingly accelerating paces of change. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:cultural and knowledge observatories (05:30)Mark Granovetter (09:15)Steve Barley ...
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Ingrid Daubechies - The "Godmother of digital image" on the beauty of the world
Ingrid Daubechies is endlessly, irrepressibly, beautifully curious. She is a Belgian physicist and mathematician whose scientific achievements have rippled across society in all directions for the past 35 years. But, more than that, she's a fierce champion of diversity and equality, in math and science, in women's rights, in opportunity. To sit with Ingrid, her math and her life, is to illuminate our world and inspire us to imagine other worlds. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons...
Customer Reviews
Diversity of careers and backgrounds
The interviews are unique in the diverse interests, backgrounds and careers of these amazing people. You will see the intersection of science, engineering, data with the arts and business and the complicated paths people take to find themselves. I have found numerous elements in these interviews that parallel my own conflicts, motivations, decisions. Enjoy.
Incredible Conversations
Ryan McGranghan has a knack for getting his guests to open up and even make surprising discoveries about their own journeys. The honest curiosity and clear-eyed truth-seeking that McGranaghan brings to the interviews is refreshing in an arena flooded with point of view and spin.
This podcast is a gem.
Trailer has me hooked.
I can’t wait to hear the next episode.