Episode 11: Bill Diamond - The nexus of Silicon Valley and science

Show Notes: The SETI Institute (1:15 and 6:10) FDL program (NASA Frontier Development Lab) (4:30 and 36:00) Jesuit thinking (5:00) Brother Guy J. Consolmagno (6:20) Take advantage of the breadth of knowledge available to you and cut across the boundaries of knowledge (7:30) Early mentor, Ken Nill, and how he altered Bill’s trajectory (12:00) Value of having both technical and managerial skills (14:10) Create a ‘powerful combination of skills’ (14:20) First mentor: high school physics teacher (17:15) Signs to look for in mentor (17:40) Being curiosity-driven (19:15) LaserTron (22:20) Bell Labs (23:00) Have an understanding of all sides of the industry/business/problem (26:15) Skills from industry most valuable to science (36:30) Organization of science Six areas of research that define SETI’s direction (38:40) SETI Science Council (39:00) Evaluating the research and targeting future research (43:00) Drake equation (38:00) Antidisciplinary and Joi Ito (40:15) Science of Team Science (40:35) Moneyball approach to science (41:25) Bill’s practices (45:45) Be open minded (48:40) Do your homework to have meaningful conversations (49:10) Taiji and Daoist philosophy (47:30) Lightning Round (50:00) Books Childhood’s EndThree body problemSnow Crash  Galileo’s DaughterWhat is making your heart sign? Carl Sagan’s ’star people'SETI outreachWorkshop "Decoding alien intelligence” (58:00) Jesuit casuistryBiggest mistakes: what NOT to do, not following instincts, and letting problems go on longer than they should have (1:00:00) Find Bill online:  SETI'Five-Cut Fridays’ series  Bill’s playlist