Alicia Juarrero - the philosopher who will change how you think about complexity

from Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Alicia Juarrero is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College and the author of Dynamics in Action, a text that many consider to have laid the foundation for how we think about complexity in our society. So Alicia is a philosopher for this moment in human history.Show Notes:Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (03:31)Live the questionsDuino ElegiesUser Friendly by Cliff Kuang (11:50)Herbert Simon and the importance of information diet (12:50)The Self-Organizing Universe by Erich Jantsch (15:00)Dave Snowden Cynefin Framework (20:00)Dave on OriginsAristotelian four causes (22:30)Emergence (27:40)Network thinking (28:20)Barabási Albert-LászlóSteven StrogatzMereology (31:00)Order Out of Chaos by Prigogine, Stengers, and Toffler (32:15)Complicated vs complex (38:00)John Holland "fail safe and safe fail" (40:00)Graceful Extensibilityby David Woods (41:20)Vector Analytica (43:20)Healthy relationality (54:00)Trust (59:15)Danielle Allen (01:01:00)Flourishing Commons newsletter (01:02:00)Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom Lightning round (01:03:20)Book: Order Out of ChaosPassion: reading broadlyHeart sing: how design creates context that also creates affordancesThe Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman User Friendly by Cliff KuangScrewed up: attention to ideas over people-orientated application of those ideasFind Alicia online:Website'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series Alicia’s playlist

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