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
Malka Older - Worldbuilding creativity
Malka Older makes a life at the crossroads of our existing and future worlds. Between research into the sociology of organizations, on-the-ground work in humanitarian aid and disaster risk reduction, and acclaimed writing of speculative and science fiction, Older brilliantly, beautifully, uncommonly lives the great paradox in front of us all: to hold at once the two truths of lived experience and imagined future.
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Show Notes:
- the immigrant sensibility (05:00)
- belonging (07:20)
- exile (09:00)
- Danielle Allen's theory of justice (15:00)
- A Paradise Built in Hellby Rebecca Solnit (16:00)
- Malka's work in the international space (16:20)
- Global Voices (19:15)
- Where are you REALLY from? (19:40)
- The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (20:30)
- 'Great Asking' (22:30)
- Positionality (23:00)
- Mu - unask the question (23:20)
- the opportunity in disaster (27:10)
- 2004 Boxing Day Indian Ocean Tsunami (31:00)
- psychological distance (34:40)
- Malka's book ...And Other Disasters(35:30)
- the importance of improvisation (43:00)
- David Whyte - the conversational nature of reality (46:30)
- Malka's book Infomocracy (49:00)
- the adjacent possible (53:45)
- The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han (59:15)
- The Sociological Imaginationby C Wright Mills (59:30)
- what does it mean to flourish? (59:45)
- the generative narrative of our time (01:08:30)
- Lightning round (01:02:00)
- Book: The Lord of the Rings
- Passion: Hearing a new language
- Heart sing: Global Voices
- Screwed up: relationship
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