Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
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.
Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
C. Thi Nguyen - This conversation will change how you see the world
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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There is something irresistible about the way C. Thi Nguyen thinks about and structures the world. From the lenses of trust, art, games, and communities he thinks about seemingly everything. In each of these topics, he's written pieces that I consider to be among the most important works on them.
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Show Notes:
- Games: Agency as Art (01:55)
- Anne Harrington (07:20)
- The Great Endarkenment Elijah Millgram (09:20)
- Trust and Antitrust Annette Baier
- Hostile Epistemology (21:20)
- The natural selection of bad science Paul Smaldino (26:40)
- The Grasshopper Bernard Suits (32:20)
- Context Changes Everything Alicia Juarrero (36:00)
- Finite and Infinite Games James Carse (36:30)
- Ulysses and the Sirens Jon Elster (39:20)
- Andrea Westlund and Anita Superson (44:40)
- How Twitter gamifies communication (47:40)
- Reiner Knizia (48:30)
- On Being Bored out of Your Mind Milgram (56:30)
- Childhood as a solution to the explore-exploit tradeoff Alison Gopnik (59:30)
- Explanation as orgasm Gopnik (01:01:30)
- Adrian Currie (01:02:20)
- Cailin O'Connor, Kevin Zollman, Philip Kitcher (01:02:40)
- Lightning round (01:08:00)
- Book: Rules: A Short History of What We Live By Lorraine Daston
- Passion: Game playing
- Heart sing: porting information; fly-fishing
- Screwed up: three unpublished novels
- Thi online:
- https://objectionable.net/
- Twitter: @add_hawk
- Thi’s Five-Cut Fridays playlist
- Tyler Cowen 'reading in piles'
Artwork Cristina Gonzalez
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