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
Guru Madhavan - Systems consciousness, repairing what is worn, and life-instilling creations
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Ryan McGranaghan
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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Guru Madhavan reverences the world and all that is in it. Guru is an engineer, but his conception of engineering is more vast than we typically assign to the role. To it he brings a systems consciousness that widens the field in recognition of its entanglement with the social and cultural.
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Show Notes:
- David Sloan Wilson on Origins (02:05)
- systems consciousness (06:40)
- problematizing the term 'technology' (11:00)
- jirnoddhara - 'repairing what is worn' (13:30)
- Charles Vest (15:20)
- Applied Minds Guru's first book (21:20)
- 'lessons from the scrapheap' (24:00)
- Spanning Space by Claude Claremont (25:00)
- Cloaca Maxima (29:00)
- Wicked Problems by Guru (31:00)
- "How to be a poet" by Wendell Berry (31:00)
- "The Grind Challenges" by Guru (33:00)
- Evolution for Everyone by David Sloan Wilson (41:50)
- Flourishing Salons and the event Guru referred to (43:00)
- FOCUS (45:20)
- Elinor Ostrom (46:30)
- The Disuniting of America by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (55:20)
- Paul Virilio's 'inverted miracle' (56:30)
- What does it mean to flourish? (57:30)
- Why War? letters between Einstein and Freud (01:00:30)
- Lightning round (01:05:10)
- Book: The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
- Passion: cubist painting
- Heart sing: latest book
- The Wisdom of the Desert by Thomas Merton
- Screwed up: communication
- Find Guru online: LinkedIn
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
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