Richard D. Bartlett: Meaningful work, social fabric, and flourishing
- Author
- Ryan McGranaghan
- Published
- Tue 06 Apr 2021
- Episode Link
- None
We find ourselves in a world that feels incongruent and unfamiliar, changing socially and technologically at paces that expose conventional explanations as inadequate. Climate change, pandemics, political unrest have punctuated this new century and feel like clarion calls for new ways of being and being together. Enter Richard D. Bartlett — someone who has been a pioneer in thinking about these new modes.
Show Notes:
- Apologetics (06:30)
- What is community? (06:50)
- The concept of flourishing (08:15)
- Having a gift/role in the world (12:00)
- Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass "The most important thing that each of us can know is our unique gift and how to use it in the world"
- Occupy movement (12:00)
- J.P. Lederach's "Critical Yeast" from The Moral Imagination
- Governance strategies for our time (18:30)
- What it takes to scale community authentically? (25:00)
- Does change need to be orchestrated from a central point? (28:00)
- Complexity (31:00)
- Microsolidarity (31:30)
- How to weave social fabric blog post (43:00)
- Morning routine (43:10)
- Adrienne Maree Brown We Will Not Cancel Us (44:00)
- Writing practice (45:00)
- Sendhil Mullainathan Scarcity (49:45)
- Lightning Round (50:30)
- Books:
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig
- The listening society Hanzi Freinacht
- Sandtalk Tyson Yunkaporta
- On Orality and Literacy Walter Ong
- Tomas Björkman Origins episode
- Passion: inventing instruments
- Sonification - Matt Russo Origins episode
- Heart sing: nonlinear and nonlogical use of language
- Screwed up: Cheating on a partner, violating the terms of a relationship
- Books:
- Find guest online:
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
