Episode 25: César Hidalgo - Information and complexity, learning and leading, rethinking technology in society
- Author
- Ryan McGranaghan
- Published
- Thu 29 Oct 2020
- Episode Link
- None
Show Notes:
- Spiritual background of his childhood (05:30)
- Discipline to do good work (06:10)
- Mentor: Albert-László Barabási (09:30)
- How do you demand excellence?
- Musing on the competitive mentality (11:45)
- Relevance of science is a very social dimension (12:30)
- What he tells his students (13:30)
- Adapting as an individual (14:45)
- MIT Media Lab Collective Learning Group (17:00)
- The Last Dance documentary (18:30)
- The Playbook documentary series (18:40)
- Complexity (21:00)
- Fractals, iterating functions, and chaos
- Lorenz
- Feigenbaum
- Book: Why information grows (26:45)
- What is information?
- Book: How humans judge machines (30:20)
- Why has knowledge not made it everywhere?
- TED Talk: “A bold idea to replace politicians” (34:20)
- Rethinking democracy and technology
- Trusting technologies (36:45)
- Counterfactuals (37:00)
- What is intelligence? (38:15)
- Failure that set up for later success (41:15)
- Reorienting yourself (42:30)
- Morning routine (45:30)
- Acting on first emotion (48:00)
- Do not lose the emotional energy that comes with creativity - it is fleeting and love is going to fade, so be romantic while love is there
- Lightning Round (40:15)
- Books: Blank Slate (Steven Pinker), the Righteous Mind (Jonathan Haidt), and the Secret of Our Success (Joseph Henrich)
- Passion: Writing
- Janna Levin (astrophysicist and writer): A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
- Heart Sing: Review of economic complexity
- Screwed up: Ability to accept things he has screwed up
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- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
