EP30 Nora Bateson on Complexity & the Transcontextual
Nora Bateson talks with Jim about her recent book, her father & grandfather’s academic impact, thinking transcontextually, Game B, warm data labs, and much more... Nora Bateson,
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Crisp conversations with critical thinkers at the leading edge of science, technology, politics, and social systems.
EP34 Joe Edelman on the Power of Values
Joe Edelman talks with Jim about values, social norms & ideological commitments, pluralism & coherence, ‘time well spent’, ethical advertising, and much more... Joe Edelman,
EP35 Ken McCarthy on the History of Online Business
Ken McCarthy talks with Jim about the commercial shift of the internet, the evolution of internet media, online market potential, the high cost of free, and much more... Internet pioneer
EP31 Forrest Landry on Building our Future
The multi-talented Forrest Landry talks with Jim about what motivates him, ethics & metaphysics, meaning & sense-making, collective action, collapse, and much more... Forrest Landry,
EP29 Michael Mauboussin on The Success Equation
Michael Mauboussin talks with Jim about his latest book, SFI, investment, using variance & complexity, luck & skill, bias, IQ vs RQ, forecasting, and more... Michael Mauboussin, Director
EP28 Mark Burgess on Promise Theory, AI & Spacetime
Author, founder & scientist Mark Burgess talks with Jim about his career, physics skill set, CFEngine, Promise Theory, AI, free will, spacetime, and much more... Author, founder &
EP33 Melanie Mitchell on the Elements of AI
Melanie Mitchell & Jim talk about the many approaches to creating AI, hype cycles, self-driving cars, what can be learned from human intelligence, and much more... Professor & Author
EP38 Tristan Harris on Humane Tech
Tristan Harris & Jim talk about his background in design ethics, dangers of ad targeting, game theory, time well spent, the global information war, trends to be optimistic about, and much more...
EP37 Jared Janes on Spirituality
Jared Janes talks with Jim about spiritual language, altered states vs traits, suffering, the confabulated self, embodiment, concentration practices, metaphysics, and more... Meditator &
EP36 Hanzi Freinacht on Metamodernism
Hanzi Freinacht talks with Jim about postmodernism, value memes, cognitive complexity, societal code, the promises/dangers of metamodernism, and much more... Hanzi Freinacht, political
EP47 Mark Burgess on the Physics of Money
Mark Burgess talks with Jim about money through the promise theory lense -- banks, debt, interest, deflation, stockpiling, entropy, crypto, and much more... Author, founder & scientist
EP46 Daniel Schrag on Climate Dynamics
Daniel Schrag talks with Jim about global collective action, climate models & data collection, geoengineering, long-term thinking, our uncertain future, and much more... Professor Daniel
EP43 Daniel Christian Wahl on a Regenerative Future
Daniel Christian Wahl talks with Jim about bioregional regeneration, Game B, complexity theory, epistemic modesty, questions vs answers, money, spirituality, and much more... Daniel Christian
EP41 Daniel Mezick on the Agile Organization
Daniel Mezick talks with Jim about agile process & organizations, how agile scrums work, openspace tech, change management, leadership, authority, complex systems, and much more... Daniel
EP40 Eric Smith on the Physics of Living Systems
Eric Smith talks with Jim about geochemistry & the origins of life, monetary systems & dynamics, interdisciplinarity linguistics, sustainability, civil society, and much more...
EP39 John Koza on Bleeding Edges
Jim talks to the multi-talented thinker & creator John Koza about his secure lottery ticket tech, his genetic programming work, how & why he created the National Popular Vote bill, and much more...
EP45 Beth Pyles on Faith, Peace & Community
Beth Pyles talks to Jim about why she left trial law to become a pastor, affluenza, spirituality & religion, peacemaking, foreign intervention, and much more... Beth Pyles talks to Jim
EP44 Steve LeVine on EV Battery Tech
Steve LeVine talks with Jim about battery tech's role in sustainable transportation, his writing process for The Powerhouse, EV predictions, and much more... Steve LeVine talks with Jim
EP42 Jessika Trancik on Tech & Research vs Climate Change
MIT professor & researcher Jessika Trancik talks with Jim about the dynamics & state of renewable energy tech & policies, decarbonization, carbon taxes, climate despair, and much more... MIT
Extra: On COVID-19 & Complexity with Jordan Hall
In this short extra episode, Jim talks with Jordan Hall about the lessons we are learning with respect to complex system dynamic response capabilities including: our current sensemaking &
