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Episode 26: Alfred Nash - Insatiable curiosity, NASA and Team X, and the return of the Renaissance Man
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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:
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (05:15)
- Mentors (07:20)
- Building and leading teams (13:15)
- Comfort with uncertainty (15:30)
- Waleed Abdalati Origins episode (18:30)
- What drew Nash to JPL (19:00)
- Trajectories to JPL (20:00)
- Why you need to read sociology books (22:00)
- Being a Renaissance Person - curiosity across human endeavors (22:40)
- T-shaped people (23:00)
- Challenging yourself (29:45)
- The change in mentality that comes with public service (32:50)
- NASA JPL Team X (35:15)
- van Allen, von Braun, and Pickering famous picture (38:00)
- What networked computers did for JPL (40:30)
- Alfred’s contribution to Team X efficiency - paper (42:15)
- Three types of fun (44:10)
- Thinking about how you provide information (46:15)
- Related: see discussion of human-centered design in Rachel Young Origins episode
- "Murphy was an optimist” (48:00)
- Melanie Mitchell Origins episode (56:10)
- Writing (56:45)
- Helping Writers Become Authors podcast
- Children of Tendu podcast and parallels to proposal writing
- Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way
- Why you need to learn about design
- “All endeavors of humanity are communicative endeavors"
- “Vision without action is a daydream, action without vision is a nightmare"
- “You can never be too clear” (01:05:30)
- Thinking in questions (01:06:00)
- “The people who really make it in life are not those who get the right answer, but the ones that ask the right question”
- Right question is the quantum leap to the right answer
- Lightning round (01:08:00):
- Book: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Passion: Gift of gab
- Heart sing: Broadest possible definition of product development (The Invincible Company book)
- Screwed up: Leading people during Planck Mission project
- Find guest online:
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
68 episoder
MP3•Episoder hjem
Manage episode 300882159 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:
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (05:15)
- Mentors (07:20)
- Building and leading teams (13:15)
- Comfort with uncertainty (15:30)
- Waleed Abdalati Origins episode (18:30)
- What drew Nash to JPL (19:00)
- Trajectories to JPL (20:00)
- Why you need to read sociology books (22:00)
- Being a Renaissance Person - curiosity across human endeavors (22:40)
- T-shaped people (23:00)
- Challenging yourself (29:45)
- The change in mentality that comes with public service (32:50)
- NASA JPL Team X (35:15)
- van Allen, von Braun, and Pickering famous picture (38:00)
- What networked computers did for JPL (40:30)
- Alfred’s contribution to Team X efficiency - paper (42:15)
- Three types of fun (44:10)
- Thinking about how you provide information (46:15)
- Related: see discussion of human-centered design in Rachel Young Origins episode
- "Murphy was an optimist” (48:00)
- Melanie Mitchell Origins episode (56:10)
- Writing (56:45)
- Helping Writers Become Authors podcast
- Children of Tendu podcast and parallels to proposal writing
- Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way
- Why you need to learn about design
- “All endeavors of humanity are communicative endeavors"
- “Vision without action is a daydream, action without vision is a nightmare"
- “You can never be too clear” (01:05:30)
- Thinking in questions (01:06:00)
- “The people who really make it in life are not those who get the right answer, but the ones that ask the right question”
- Right question is the quantum leap to the right answer
- Lightning round (01:08:00):
- Book: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Passion: Gift of gab
- Heart sing: Broadest possible definition of product development (The Invincible Company book)
- Screwed up: Leading people during Planck Mission project
- Find guest online:
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
68 episoder
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