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Alan Lightman is an American writer, physicist and social entrepreneur. He served on the faculties of Harvard and MIT, and was the first person at MIT to receive dual faculty appointments in science and in the humanities. Currently, he serves as professor for the practice of the humanities at MIT. In his scientific research, he has made fundamental contributions to the astrophysics of black holes and cosmic radiative processes.

He is the author of numerous books, both fiction and nonfiction, including Einstein's Dreams, an international bestseller, The Diagnosis, a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, and his latest book, Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings, where he discusses questions of nothingness and infinity, the mind, and the specialness of life.

Alan's essays and articles have appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, Harper's, Nautilus, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Salon, and many other publications.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, and living between physics and the humanities.
• What it was like to study physics at Princeton and Caltech.
• Working with Richard Feynman.
• Writing Einstein's Dreams.
• The connection between physics and spirituality.
• The topics of entropy and life.
• The rarity of life.
• On nothingness and infinity.
• On the value of wasting time, and many other topics.

This conversation with Alan Lightman is one of a dozen or more upcoming conversations with bestselling authors, thinkers, designers, scientists, and makers who are reimagining our world and experience. So please follow us on your favorite podcasting app, if you haven't already, so that you can make sure you don't miss them.

And now, let's jump right in with Alan Lightman.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[3:12] Life During COVID

[6:40] Early Influences

[12:42] On Writing and the Origin of Einstein's Dreams

[17:53] A Convergence Between Physics and Spirituality

[19:42] The Origin of the Universe

[24:40] The Rarity of Life

[29:06] A Distinction Between Life and Death

[33:26] Nothingness and Infinity

[36:39] Finding Meaning in a Multiverse

[39:34] The Benefit of Wasting Time

[42:33] A Sermon on Disconnection

EPISODE LINKS

• Alan's Links
  • 🌍 Harpswell Foundation
  • 📘 Einstein's Dreams
  • 📘 Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
  • 📘 The Diagnosis
  • 📘 In Praise of Wasting Time
  • 📘 The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
• Other Links
  • 📕 "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
  • 📕 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  • 📕 What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger
  • 📕 Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
  • 🎤 Alain de Botton TED Talk: Atheism 2.0

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BJ Miller is an American physician, author, and speaker. He is a practicing hospice and palliative medicine physician, and is best known for his 2015 TED Talk, "What Really Matters at the End of Life". BJ, who served as an executive director of San Francisco's Zen Hospice Project, has been on the teaching faculty at UCSF School of Medicine since 2017, and is the subject of the Netflix Academy Award nominated short documentary, End Game. His book, A Beginner's Guide to the End, which he co-authored with Shoshana Berger, is an unflinching, compassionate, and intensely pragmatic guide to the end of life.

Today, BJ sees patients and caregivers through his online palliative care service, Mettle Health.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• Growing up with a mother who lived with polio, and how that influenced his thinking.
• A severe accident early it life, which forced him to re-form his identity and informed the rest of his journey.
• His path in Palliative care - and the insight that the health establishment is designed to treat diseases, not humans.
• His insights into the meaning and wisdom one can find at the end of life.

It's been a rare pleasure to talk to someone like BJ, who is someone who steps into realms of experience most of us avoid at all costs, and to hear the precious types of wisdom he brings with him from there.

This episode, I think, is also a great introduction to the world of palliative medicine, which may be the first time the medical establishment put the patient's experience, quality of life, and constructed meeting at the heart of care, treating people as opposed to diseases. BJ and I discuss the ways the healthcare system and hospital system are badly designed, and what can be done about it.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[4:32] Life During Covid

[7:23] Early Childhood Spirituality

[12:30] An Accident and an Identity Crisis

[18:25] The Significance of a Snowball

[22:01] Palliative Care and the Dynamic Between Human Beings

[29:51] A Badly Designed Healthcare System

[32:20] Necessary vs Unnecessary Suffering

[35:13] Lessons in Death

[39:51] Wildness and Wonderment

[47:54] A Beginner's Guide to the End

[53:36] A Sermon on Life and Death

EPISODE LINKS

• BJ's Links
  • 🌍 Zen Hospice Project
  • 🌍 Mettle Health
  • 📘 A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death
  • 🎤 TED Talk
  • 🍿 End Game
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @bjmillermd
  • 📺 YouTube Channel

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TODAY'S GUEST

Jake Knapp is one of the most influential product designers living today. Formerly a product designer at Microsoft, Google, and Google Ventures, he's the creator of the Design Sprint process, which transformed the way hundreds of enterprises and thousands of designers around the world approach new product design. He is also a bestselling author of two books, Sprint, and Make Time.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• Surviving Covid and chaos
• Finding positivity in hard things
• Jake's childhood and the sense of possibility
• What is Design? Problem-solving or gooey rainbows?
• What's broken with how companies approach new products?
• How did the idea of the Design Sprint come about?
• How to explain Design Sprints to an unsuspecting person
• Writing a science-fiction novel, resistance

We also discuss:

• Dogs
• Spiders in Thailand
• Quotes on the Internet
• US Presidential History
• The ReMarkable Tablet, and more

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[2:59] Life During Covid

[13:45] The Art of Political Speaking

[19:53] Reclaiming Design

[24:50] Childhood Magic

[34:00] Creating Possibility Amidst Walls of Reality

[46:55] Revolutionary Shifts and the Birth of the Design Sprint

[1:04:10] The Growth of the Design Sprint

[1:14:50] Core Ideas of the Sprint

[1:20:23] Building Decision Making

[1:26:14] The Motive Behind Deadlines

[1:32:26] Passion Projects and Parenting

EPISODE LINKS

• Jake's Links
  • 🌍 JakeKnapp.com
  • 🌍 TheSprintBook.com
  • 🌍 Jake on Medium
  • 📘 Sprint: Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just 5 Days
  • 📔 Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
• Other Links
  • 📙 Getting Real by 37 Signals
  • 📘 Getting Things Done by David Allen
  • 📕 Brain Rules by John Medina
  • 📗 Decisive by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
  • 🍿 Amadeus (Film)
  • 📘 On Writing by Stephen King
  • 📗 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
  • 📕 The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
  • 📙 Rework by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried
  • 📗 Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath

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Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is an Israeli-born, Jewish educator, writer, and performance artist. He's the creator of Storahtelling, Inc. and the founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul in NYC, an artist-driven, everybody friendly, God-optional, pop-up experimental community for sacred Jewish gatherings.

Amichai is a member of the Global Justice Fellowship of the American Jewish World Service, a founding member of the Jewish Emergent Network, serves on the Leadership Council of the New York Jewish Agenda, the Advisory Council of the International School for Peace - a Refugee Support Project in Greece, a member of the Advisory Council for the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, and is a faculty member of the Reboot Network.

Through all his endeavors, he brings a creative, inclusive, and vital energy to Jewish practice and Jewish life.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• How the Jewish concept of the set table served both as a happy early memory, and as an organizing principle for his later work.
• How Covid 19 made rituals and online communities more important than ever.
• His orthodox roots as the scion of an ancient and respected rabbinical dynasty, and his journey of self discovery through theater, drag, and art.
• His creation of storytelling, a way to bring to life the ancient ritual of the reading of the Torah, and the Maven Method he developed to spread the practice further.
• The emergence of Lab/Shul and the community around it.
• The power of spiritual design and a well-designed practice in transforming our lives and our communities for the better.

We also discuss:

• How is religion used as a tool in the service of humanity?
• What happens if you bring scripture to the 21st century as a performance?
• Why is the tribal wisdom of small circles within a bigger circle so important?

I've long believed that one of the most promising avenues to apply design skills and creativity to is in designing communities, social rituals, and spiritual practice that suits the modern world. And, as such, there's no one I can think of that exemplifies this better than Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie. I think this conversation, which is full of wisdom and fun, is a great introduction to exactly the type of spiritual design we need to see more of. So let's jump right in with Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[3:52] Life During Covid

[10:17] The Wisdom of the Set Table

[22:31] The Birth of Storahtelling

[29:55] A Paradigm Shift from Patriarchy

[38:25] Rebirth of the Translator

[54:34] The Design of Lab/Shul

[1:00:19] Design Thinking and Virtual Practice

[1:11:54] Individualism vs Collectivism

[1:19:36] The Significance of the Tree

EPISODE LINKS

• Amichai's Links
  • 🌍 Lab/Shul
  • 🌍 Storahtelling, Inc.
  • 🌍 American Jewish World Service
  • 🌍 Jewish Emergent Network
  • 🌍 New York Jewish Agenda
  • 🌍 International School of Peace
  • 🌍 Institute for Jewish Spirituality
  • 🌍 Amichai Lau-Lavie Official Website
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @AmichaiLauLavie
  • 📺 YouTube Channel
• Other Links
  • 📺 Bo Burnham: Inside
  • 🌍 929
  • 🌍 Design Thinking - Stanford d.school
  • 📕 The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
  • 📕 Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
  • 📕 The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker

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Pia Mancini is a co-founder and CEO at Open Collective, a chair of the Democracy Earth Foundation, and a democracy activist who helped create the DemocracyOS platform and launched a Net Party in Argentina.

Her TED Talk, about upgrading democracy for the internet era, has exceeded a million views and helped reshape the conversation around the meeting place of democracy and the internet. She is a Y Combinator alum, a young global leader at the World Economic Forum, and she's also Roma's mum.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• Her journey from empowering citizens in the political process to empowering collectives to self-fund and self-govern
• Her vision for a more inclusive and expansive digital democracy
• The tension between idealism and the realities of life, politics, and system

We also discuss:

• How do we, as individuals, create a system and an environment that affects change?
• How can we use technology to upgrade democracy?
• How do we trust ourselves and each other?

There is no more important discussion, I believe, than how our new technologies should be used and woven into the fabric of our public life. And how to move from chaotic, even destructive populism, to a constructive model of participation and empowerment. My conversation with Pia is one of the most fascinating conversations, in an ongoing series of design conversations we've lined up for you on design for democracy, social change, and positive impact.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[2:48] Life During Covid

[10:26] Early Influences

[20:54] Upgrading Democracy

[30:23] DemocracyOS and Liquid Democracy

[38:07] The Dream of a Borderless and Equal World

[46:24] Net Party and the Clash with Reality

[53:33] Maintaining Hope and Motivation

[58:40] Building a New Narrative

[1:03:55] A Transition to an Open Collective

[1:21:14] A Sermon of Inspiration

EPISODE LINKS

• Pia's Links
  • 🌍 Open Collective
  • 🌍 TED Talk
  • 🌍 DemocracyOS
  • 🌍 Net Party (Partido de la Red)
  • 🌍 Pia Mancini Official Website
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @piamancini
  • 📺 YouTube Channel
• Other Links
  • 📕 Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
  • 📕 From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp

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Prof. Eddie Obeng is a British organizational theorist, educator, and author, who serves as a professor at Henley Business School and Hult International Business School's Ashridge Executive Education. He is the founder of Pentacle, The Virtual Business School, and serves as its executive director.

Professor Obeng has been described as "a leading revolutionary" and "an agent provocateur" by the Financial Times.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• How studying material science and observing the changes in modern business led him to the crucial insight that the world is now changing faster than we can catch up with our projections
• How his insight unravels common wisdom in industry after industry leading him to explore new ways of doing things
• Why traditional hierarchies no longer make sense in a volatile, complex, and ambiguous world
• How his insights inspired later development in design thinking, and how his thinking led him to create QUBE, an interactive, virtual, super-real world, which allows organizations to shed their old world culture and thinking and experiment with collaborative, creative problem solving

We also discuss:

• Why has thought leadership stalled?
• How do we enact change to happen in a more human way to allow people to lead balanced lives?
• How do we become effective leaders?
• What can individuals do differently to change their lives for the better?

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[2:58] Life in the UK during Covid

[8:32] Early childhood driving forces

[11:05] The World After Midnight and the Rapidly Accelerating Pace of Change

[20:13] The New World Management concept

[34:55] Leadership in the New World and the death of the hierarchy

[43:59] The difference between leadership and management

[55:45] A super reality

[1:00:15] A sermon on enriching and controlling your life in the New World

EPISODE LINKS

• Eddie's Links
  • 🌍 TED Talk
  • 🌍 Pentacle - The Virtual Business School
  • 🌍 QUBE
  • 📘 The Complete Leader
  • 📘 New Rules for the New World: Cautionary Tales for the New World Manager
  • 📘 All Change! The Project Leader's Secret Handbook
  • 🌍 Eddie Obeng Official Website
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @EddieObeng
  • 📺 YouTube Channel
• Other Links
  • 📕 The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

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TODAY'S GUEST

David Peter Stroh is the bestselling author of Systems Thinking for Social Change: A Practical Guide for Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results.

For the past 40 years, David has helped leaders to apply systems thinking to organizational strategy, and achieve breakthrough, sustainable change. He is a founding partner of the influential consulting firm Bridgeway Partners, a faculty member of the Academy for Systems Change, and a charter member of the Society for Organizational Learning.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• How he was exposed as a child to both natural and urban complexity growing up in Inwood, at the very northern tip of Manhattan, NY.
• How he fell in love with transportation systems, but ended up studying Organization Development at MIT.
• How his search for greater impact and a seat at the table led him down the Systems Thinking path, and eventually to founding a consulting firm alongside Charlie Kiefer, Robert Fritz, and Peter Senge, later of The Fifth Discipline fame.

We also discuss:

• What's a system, and what's systems thinking?
• Why do complex systems often yield unintended consequences?
• What are the benefits of systems thinking, especially in the world of impact?
• What does it tell us about wealth inequality and poverty?
• And why David has come to see systems thinking as an almost spiritual practice?

David's book and his blog are must reads for anyone interested in making deep and lasting positive impact, and avoid undesirable consequences. And this conversation can serve as a good, and I think, exciting intro to the topic.

So let's jump right in with David Peter Stroh.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[3:34] Life During Covid

[6:00] The Advantages of Various Points of View

[12:17] The Birth of Innovation Associates

[18:05] Defining Systems Thinking

[22:57] The Role of Intent In Systems

[33:32] The Benefits of The Systems Thinking Approach In Creating Change

[42:56] The Spiritual Aspects of Systems Thinking

[59:03] A Sermon for Those Who Wish to Create Change

EPISODE LINKS

• David's Links
  • 🌍 BridgewayPartners.com
  • 🌍 Bridgeway Partners' Blog
  • 📘 Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results
  • 📝 Overcoming the Systemic Challenges of Wealth Inequality in the U.S.
  • 🌍 Applied Systems Thinking
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @davidpeterstroh
  • 📺 YouTube Channel

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TODAY'S GUEST

Jordan Ellenberg is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. His new book, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else, came out earlier this year. Jordan lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and his blog is called Quomodocumque, which means "after whatever fashion" in Latin.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we discuss:

[2:56] Takeaways from teaching online

[8:27] Early revelations about math

[15:56] From academia to writing

[18:54] A new way of teaching math

[31:08] Lincoln and geometry

[36:35] The geometry of gerrymandering

[44:59] Comparing between the Israeli and the US political systems

[52:21] How geometry helps in deep learning and AI

[57:20] The geometry of reality

[1:04:26] The philosophy of entropy

[1:08:09] A non-sermon about sermons

EPISODE LINKS

• Jordan's Links
  • 🌍 Jordan Ellenberg on Wikipedia
  • 🌍 Jordan's website
  • 📘 Shape - The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
  • 📕 How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
  • 📣 Twitter: @JSellenberg
• Other Links
  • 📔 Inventional Geometry

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Patrick McKeown is the best-selling author of The Oxygen Advantage, and the Clinical Director of the Buteyko Clinic International. Over the past two decades, Patrick has trained thousands of people around the world to safely challenge their bodies and produce positive changes through correct breathing. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading breathing re-education experts.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we discuss:

[2:16] Flourishing under COVID

[4:59] Early in life, deciding never to work for someone else

[9:33] Growing up with asthma, trouble concentrating and sleep

[11:01] Why mindfulness meditation isn't enough

[16:05] Breathing for concentration

[22:29] Traveling to the USSR to study from Prof. Buteyko

[25:28] The Buteyko Method

[32:28] What's wrong with how we breath today?

[41:42] Why spiritual traditions emphasize the breath?

[46:50] The breath as connecting between the conscious and the subconscious, left and right hemispheres.

[49:06] A short sermon to breathers.

EPISODE LINKS

• Patrick's Links
  • 🌍 The Oxygen Advantage
  • 🌍 Buteyko Clinic
  • 📘 The Oxygen Advantage
  • 📕 The Breathing Cure
  • 📔 Sleep with Buteyko
  • 📣 Twitter: @OxygenAdvantage

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TODAY'S GUEST David Allen is one of the world's most influential thinkers on productivity. His 35 years experience as a management consultant and executive coach have earned him worldwide recognition. His bestselling book, the groundbreaking "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity", has sold millions and been published in thirty languages; and the "GTD" methodology it describes has become a global phenomenon, being taught by training companies in more than ninety countries. David, his company, and his partners are dedicated to teaching people how to stay relaxed and productive in our fast paced world.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we discuss:

[2:58] Life during the COVID pandemic, living in the Netherlands

[6:23] Effects of COVID on GTD implementation

[9:13] Loving Magic, Models and Systems

[11:30] Crucial Design Innovations in Tech

[14:43] Early Attempts at GTD Software

[16:14] Being an Exchange Student in Zurich in high school

[18:53] Choosing an experimental Liberal Arts college

[23:19] Becoming a spiritual seeker in the 60s and 70s

[27:01] Helping businesses improve their process

[28:40] Searching for models

[30:28] The roots of GTD

[31:48] First big corporate break

[34:26] The Getting Things Done book

[35:44] What is GTD?

[37:57] Is GTD the Natural way of planning?

[41:49] The Design of GTD

[45:47] Iterative Development

[47:39] To GTD or Not to GTD?

[49:08] Geeking out over the reMarkable Tablet

[53:55] The spiritual aspects of GTD

[1:00:32] GTD and spontaneity

[1:05:02] The Dao of small things

[1:07:06] Does David Allen have unproductive days?

[1:09:18] GTD and Pipelines

[1:13:31] A short sermon from David Allen

EPISODE LINKS

• David's Links
  • 🌍 GettingThingsDone.com
  • 🌍 GTDConnect.com
  • 📘 Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
  • 📕 Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done
  • 📔 Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life
  • 📣 Twitter: @gtdguy
  • 📺 David Allen's TEDx Talk
• Other Things Discussed
  • 🌎 John-Roger.org
  • 🌎 Charles Simonyi, Software Engineer
  • 🌎 I Ching
  • 📔 Daodejing
  • 🌎 Rumi, the Sufi poet
  • 📝 reMarkable Tablet

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