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Episode 25: César Hidalgo - Information and complexity, learning and leading, rethinking technology in society
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Innhold levert av Ryan McGranaghan. Alt podcastinnhold, inkludert episoder, grafikk og podcastbeskrivelser, lastes opp og leveres direkte av Ryan McGranaghan eller deres podcastplattformpartner. Hvis du tror at noen bruker det opphavsrettsbeskyttede verket ditt uten din tillatelse, kan du følge prosessen skissert her https://no.player.fm/legal.
Show Notes:
- Spiritual background of his childhood (05:30)
- Discipline to do good work (06:10)
- Mentor: Albert-László Barabási (09:30)
- How do you demand excellence?
- Musing on the competitive mentality (11:45)
- Relevance of science is a very social dimension (12:30)
- What he tells his students (13:30)
- Adapting as an individual (14:45)
- MIT Media Lab Collective Learning Group (17:00)
- The Last Dance documentary (18:30)
- The Playbook documentary series (18:40)
- Complexity (21:00)
- Fractals, iterating functions, and chaos
- Lorenz
- Feigenbaum
- Book: Why information grows (26:45)
- What is information?
- Book: How humans judge machines (30:20)
- Why has knowledge not made it everywhere?
- TED Talk: “A bold idea to replace politicians” (34:20)
- Rethinking democracy and technology
- Trusting technologies (36:45)
- Counterfactuals (37:00)
- What is intelligence? (38:15)
- Failure that set up for later success (41:15)
- Reorienting yourself (42:30)
- Morning routine (45:30)
- Acting on first emotion (48:00)
- Do not lose the emotional energy that comes with creativity - it is fleeting and love is going to fade, so be romantic while love is there
- Lightning Round (40:15)
- Books: Blank Slate (Steven Pinker), the Righteous Mind (Jonathan Haidt), and the Secret of Our Success (Joseph Henrich)
- Passion: Writing
- Janna Levin (astrophysicist and writer): A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
- Heart Sing: Review of economic complexity
- Screwed up: Ability to accept things he has screwed up
- Find guest online:
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
68 episoder
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Manage episode 300882160 series 2974825
Innhold levert av Ryan McGranaghan. Alt podcastinnhold, inkludert episoder, grafikk og podcastbeskrivelser, lastes opp og leveres direkte av Ryan McGranaghan eller deres podcastplattformpartner. Hvis du tror at noen bruker det opphavsrettsbeskyttede verket ditt uten din tillatelse, kan du følge prosessen skissert her https://no.player.fm/legal.
Show Notes:
- Spiritual background of his childhood (05:30)
- Discipline to do good work (06:10)
- Mentor: Albert-László Barabási (09:30)
- How do you demand excellence?
- Musing on the competitive mentality (11:45)
- Relevance of science is a very social dimension (12:30)
- What he tells his students (13:30)
- Adapting as an individual (14:45)
- MIT Media Lab Collective Learning Group (17:00)
- The Last Dance documentary (18:30)
- The Playbook documentary series (18:40)
- Complexity (21:00)
- Fractals, iterating functions, and chaos
- Lorenz
- Feigenbaum
- Book: Why information grows (26:45)
- What is information?
- Book: How humans judge machines (30:20)
- Why has knowledge not made it everywhere?
- TED Talk: “A bold idea to replace politicians” (34:20)
- Rethinking democracy and technology
- Trusting technologies (36:45)
- Counterfactuals (37:00)
- What is intelligence? (38:15)
- Failure that set up for later success (41:15)
- Reorienting yourself (42:30)
- Morning routine (45:30)
- Acting on first emotion (48:00)
- Do not lose the emotional energy that comes with creativity - it is fleeting and love is going to fade, so be romantic while love is there
- Lightning Round (40:15)
- Books: Blank Slate (Steven Pinker), the Righteous Mind (Jonathan Haidt), and the Secret of Our Success (Joseph Henrich)
- Passion: Writing
- Janna Levin (astrophysicist and writer): A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
- Heart Sing: Review of economic complexity
- Screwed up: Ability to accept things he has screwed up
- Find guest online:
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
68 episoder
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