Guru Madhavan - Systems consciousness, repairing what is worn, and life-instilling creations

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.Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow 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 SolnitPassion: cubist paintingHeart sing: latest bookThe Wisdom of the Desert by Thomas MertonScrewed up: communicationFind Guru online: LinkedIn'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  Guru’s playlistLogo artwork by Cristina GonzalezMusic by swelo on all streaming platforms or @swelomusic on social media