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On this episode of The Karen Kenney Show, I had the honor and delight of speaking with one of my teachers and mentors, David Bedrick!David is a teacher, counselor, attorney, and the founder of The Sante Fe Institute for Shame-based Studies.He's also the author of four books and on this episode, we discuss his latest: THE UNSHAMING WAY - A Compassionate Guide to Dismantling Shame.This fantastic book addresses how to heal from shame, unlearn self-blame, and reclaim your story.As someone who has been deeply impacted by his work on shame and the unshaming process, I was super excited to dive into a rich conversation about vulnerability, trauma, and the power of authentic expression. We also explored the profound impact of violence, childhood trauma, and how the internalization of shame can shape our adult experiences. Perhaps most importantly, David shared his unique approach to "unshaming," which involves genuine curiosity and a deep respect for each person's sacred story. Rather than trying to fix or change someone, he invites them to fully inhabit and express their authentic selves - a process that often unlocks hidden gifts and strengths. One of the surprising key moments for me was when David and I both reflected on how we were once labeled as "shy" kids, when in reality, we were simply responding to fear and a lack of safety!I've benefited immensely from this work, and now I'm so happy to get to share David and these insights with you.I'd love to hear your favorite and most impactful takeaways, too!KEY POINTS:•​ The power of vulnerability and transparency in building trust and safety•​ How childhood trauma can lead to internalized shame and self-criticism• Reframing "shyness" as a response to fear ​- rather than a personality trait• David Bedrick's definition of shame as a viewpoint, not just a feeling•​ The transformative potential of authentic expression and the "unshaming" process•​ The exacerbating role of systemic oppression in fueling internalized shame• The Nest - Group Mentoring Program DAVID'S BIO: David Bedrick, JD, Dipl. PW, is a teacher, counselor, and attorney. He grew up in a family marked by violence. While his father's brutality was physical and verbal, his mother's denial and gaslighting had its own covert power. This formative context introduced David early to the etiology of shame and instilled an urge to unshame.Professionally, he was on the faculty for the University of Phoenix and the Process Work Institute in the U.S. and Poland and is the founder of the Santa Fe Institute for Shame-based Studies where he trains therapists, coaches and healers and offers workshops for individuals to further their own personal development.David writes for Psychology Today and is the author of four books: Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology and Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change, and You Can't Judge a Body by Its Cover: 17 Women's Stories of Hunger, Body Shame and Redemption.His new fourth book, The Unshaming Way, was published by North Atlantic books in November 2024.Links:Order The Unshaming Way: https://a.co/d/dYTwNa7Website: https://www.davidbedrick.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/david.bedrick/Facebook:

Scientists have observed that in nature, all things scale with size in a way that is mathematically predictable. Similar scaling laws hold for things like growth and lifespan. As theoretical physicist Geoffrey West explains, larger mammals generally live longer because of the inverse relationship between body size and the rate at which cells are damaged. By having this theory of scaling laws, “you can determine what the parameters are, the knobs that you could conceivably turn to change that lifespan,” says West. Instead of living to be 100 years old, humans could someday hack our cells to last for two centuries. --------------------------------------------------------------- GEOFFREY WEST: Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics and biology. West is a Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a distinguished professor at the Sante Fe Institute, where he served as the president from 2005-2009. In 2006 he was named to Time's list of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World.” Geoffrey West is the author of “Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies”, find it at https://amzn.to/2UpdHi4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: GEOFFREY WEST: All things scale in a very predictable way and they scale in a way that's non-linear. We developed this very elegant theory that what these scaling laws are reflecting are in fact the generic universal mathematical and physical properties of the multiple networks that make an organism viable and allow it to develop and grow. I think it's one of the more remarkable properties of life actually. Just taking mammals, the largest mammals, the whale, in terms of measurable quantities, is actually a scaled up version of the smallest mammal, which is actually the shrew. They are scaled versions of one another. If you have this theory of scaling laws, you can determine what the parameters are, the knobs that you could conceivably turn to change that lifespan. So it's a fantastic effect, it's a huge effect. If you have this theory of networks underlying these scaling laws, manifesting themselves as scaling laws, you first ask, you know, is there a scaling law for lifespan? Every time you double the size of an organism, you would expect to double the amount of metabolic energy you need to keep that organism alive. Quite the contrary, you don't need twice as much metabolic energy. Systematically you only need roughly speaking 75% as much. So there's this kind of systematic 25% savings. Metabolic rate simply means how much energy or how much food does an animal need to eat each day in order to stay alive. Everybody's familiar with that as sort of roughly 2000 food calories a day for a human being. So here's this extraordinary complex process, yet it scales in a very simple way. Life span also increases following these quarter power scaling laws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Garfield joins the show This was an interesting and wide ranging conversation. We spoke of people and community as social molecules, time loops, AI and technology, and the need to come together in community towards some of the challenges facing us collectively, and much more. Also, brief appearance of Michael's daughter on the show for a moment! Michael is an incredible polymath. He is a visionary artist and live painter, a fantastic musician, podcast host (Future Fossils and until just recently Complexity Podcast for Sante Fe Institute), science communicator, writer and soon to be author, and all around sponge of knowledge for seemingly everything. Michael is working on a project likely to become a book from integrating what he's learned from his time at the Sante Fe Institute, and exploring how the science and philosophy of the Jurassic Park franchise (books, films, games, rides) sheds light on and entangles with the evolution of AI, VFX, biotech, and other monsters of modernity since JP's first edition back in 1990. He's also working on a new album called The Age Of Reunion, and has been making some great AI music videos with some of his work, so check that out.  And please! Everyone go check out his Martian Arts EP. One of my favourite pieces of music, it's one piece of music over 5 or 6 tracks and about 30 minutes long, but is one of the best ambient pieces for journeying with psychedelics I've found. Some of Michael's other music has been used in official MAPS MDMA therapy playlists also.  The painting in the circle in the Podcast art is Beija Flor by Michael Garfield Michael's Link tree for all his stuff (music, art, etc) Future Fossils Podcast Complexity Podcast Medicine of Woman painting from my dream premonition Future Fossils Ep 117 on Time Loops Time Loops book Martian Arts EP by Michael Garfield Guitar Assisted MDMA Therapy by Michael Garfield Michael's Substack My Patreon

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist and philosopher who specializes in quantum mechanics, cosmology, and the philosophy of science. He is the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and an external professor at the Sante Fe Institute. Sean has contributed prolifically to the public understanding of science through a variety of mediums: as an author of several physics books including Something Deeply Hidden and The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, as a public speaker and debater on a wide variety of scientific and philosophical subjects, and also as a host of his podcast Mindscape which covers topics spanning science, society, philosophy, culture, and the arts. www.patreon.com/timothynguyen In this episode, we take a deep dive into The Many Worlds (Everettian) Interpretation of quantum mechanics. While there are many philosophical discussions of the Many Worlds Interpretation available, ours marries philosophy with the technical, mathematical details. As a bonus, the whole gamut of topics from philosophy and physics arise, including the nature of reality, emergence, Bohmian mechanics, Bell's Theorem, and more. We conclude with some analysis of Sean's speculative work on the concept of emergent spacetime, a viewpoint which naturally arises from Many Worlds. This video is most suitable for those with a basic technical understanding of quantum mechanics. Part I: Introduction 00:00:00 : Introduction 00:05:42 : Philosophy and science: more interdisciplinary work? 00:09:14 : How Sean got interested in Many Worlds (MW) 00:13:04 : Technical outline Part II: Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell 00:14:58 : Textbook QM review 00:24:25 : The measurement problem 00:25:28 : Einstein: "God does not play dice" 00:27:49 : The reality problem Part III: Many Worlds 00:31:53 : How MW comes in 00:34:28 : EPR paradox (original formulation) 00:40:58 : Simpler to work with spin 00:42:03 : Spin entanglement 00:44:46 : Decoherence 00:49:16 : System, observer, environment clarification for decoherence 00:53:54 : Density matrix perspective (sketch) 00:56:21 : Deriving the Born rule 00:59:09 : Everett: right answer, wrong reason. The easy and hard part of Born's rule. 01:03:33 : Self-locating uncertainty: which world am I in? 01:04:59 : Two arguments for Born rule credences 01:11:28 : Observer-system split: pointer-state problem 01:13:11 : Schrodinger's cat and decoherence 01:18:21 : Consciousness and perception 01:21:12 : Emergence and MW 01:28:06 : Sorites Paradox and are there infinitely many worlds 01:32:50 : Bad objection to MW: "It's not falsifiable." Part IV: Additional Topics 01:35:13 : Bohmian mechanics 01:40:29 : Bell's Theorem. What the Nobel Prize committee got wrong 01:41:56 : David Deutsch on Bohmian mechanics 01:46:39 : Quantum mereology 01:49:09 : Path integral and double slit: virtual and distinct worlds Part V. Emergent Spacetime 01:55:05 : Setup 02:02:42 : Algebraic geometry / functional analysis perspective 02:04:54 : Relation to MW Part VI. Conclusion 02:07:16 : Distribution of QM beliefs 02:08:38 : Locality   Further reading: Hugh Everett. The Theory of the Universal Wave Function, 1956. Sean Carroll. Something Deeply Hidden, 2019. More Sean Carroll & Timothy Nguyen: Fragments of the IDW: Joe Rogan, Sam Harris, Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/jM2FQrRYyas Twitter: @iamtimnguyen Webpage: http://www.timothynguyen.org  

Michael Mauboussin is the author of The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing, Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, and More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places. Michael is currently Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global. Michael has also held roles as Director of Research at BlueMountain Capital Management, he was a Managing Director and Head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, and he was Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management. Mr. Mauboussin has been an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School since 1993 and currently is Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Sante Fe Institute. Checkout the Show Notes from Michael's Episode & Reading List Transcript   Watch my Persistent Patterns of Greatness Master Class  You Unleashed Course  50% off You Unleashed is an online personal development course created by Sean DeLaney after spending years working with an interviewing high achievers.The online course that helps you ‘Unleash your potential'! You Unleashed teaches you the MINDSETS, ROUTINES and BEHAVIORS you need to unleash your potential and discover what you're capable of. You know you're capable of more and want to bring out that untapped potential inside of you. We teach you how. Enroll Today & Receive 50% off by using code “WGYT”- Click Here Subscribe to my Momentum Monday Newsletter Connect with us! Whatgotyouthere TikTok YouTube Twitter Instagram 

This week our guest is businessman and entrepreneur, Jim Rutt, who you may know as the former chairman of the Sante Fe Institute or from his own podcast, The Jim Rutt show. Jim is also arguably the founding spearhead for a movement known as “Game B,” which we'll discuss much more deeply in the episode but which could quickly be described here as an alternative to the destabilizing, exploitative, and zero-sum approach to society we currently have. Beyond detailing the specifics of Game B, this episode also explores Jim's thoughts on technology, including online communities, social media moderation, digital IDs, and the ways in which Game B principles can be utilized to improve technology. Jim's article on Game B: https://medium.com/@memetic007/a-journey-to-gameb-4fb13772bcf3 Join the game B movement: https://www.game-b.org/ Listen to Jim's podcast: https://www.jimruttshow.com/ ** Host: Steven Parton - LinkedIn / Twitter Music by: Amine el Filali

Michael Garfield is a science communicator at the Sante Fe Institute, the host of the Future Fossils Podcast, the host of the SFI Complexity Podcast, a musician, a artist, and a father. Support this project at https://anchor.fm/truenorthproject/support Come explore with us at https://truenorthproject.com Explore more of Michael Garfield https://linktr.ee/michaelgarfield --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/truenorthproject/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truenorthproject/support

Summary: Louisa is joined by Jessica Beck, Co-Founder and COO of Alfred and Marcela Sapone, CEO and Co-Founder of Alfred for the 5th episode of season 9. During this episode, they discuss how building management platforms are changing the way we live. Taking a deeper dive into how Alfred came about and in which city it all began, they also touch on what the product is, what trends they are seeing, and why Alfred acquired a property management company. They wrap up this riveting chat by talking about their journey as female founders and what is next for Alfred. The value bomb from this episode is, “Once you build an asset, you need someone to manage that asset.” Resources: LMRE Global Recruitment and Search Consultancy LMRE YouTube Interviews Companies Mentioned: The Peloton Brookfield Properties Hines Related  RXR  Jamestown Greystar  Shout Outs:   John Fagan, Co-founder & CEO at doorkee   Key Insights From This Episode:  The people who were able to make it all work had one thing in common: they got really comfortable with asking for help as well as comfortable with the idea of a team backing them up. - Marcela  ​Once you build an asset, you need someone to manage that asset. - Marcela   Real estate has been very resistant towards tech enablement. - Marcela My advice to founders would be; it does take time but if you build a relationship and you go building by building, one building to ten buildings, you not only build a great relationship, but you actually get to build a great product and you get to learn and work with your customers to bring something to market. - Jessica We learned that in this space, there's so much fragmentation; there's fragmentation on the technology side, on the services side and on the operator side. - Jessica About Our Guests: Jessica Beck, Co-Founder and COO at Alfred  Jessica Beck is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Alfred. Beck leads Alfred's day-to-day operations and under her direction, Alfred has grown to be a leader in hospitality, successfully rolling out a national resident experience and building management platform with hundreds of thousands of units managed.  In an effort to expand Alfred's footprint, Beck has negotiated and developed partnerships with some of the country's largest real estate developers, expanding Alfred to 44 major cities across the country.  Along with Alfred's Co-Founder, Marcela Sapone, Beck supports founders who want to live more consciously through WHITESPACE Ventures, a seed investment firm focused on design-led tech for better business.  From SXSW to the Sante Fe Institute's Annual Business Network & Board of Trustees Symposium, Jess speaks regularly on entrepreneurship and building scalable solutions in the sharing economy. Beck holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in economics from Williams College, where she was captain of the women's rugby team and graduated cum laude. Marcela Sapone, Co-Founder and CEO of Alfred  Marcela Sapone is the CEO and Co-Founder of Alfred. Sapone launched Alfred with a mission to make help a universal utility in every home. Since 2014, under Sapone's leadership, Alfred has expanded to serve more than 135,000 residents in 44 cities across the United States and Canada, and has been named as Fast Company's Top 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2018, 2019, and 2020.  As one of the first leaders in the sharing economy to advocate for fair compensation of service workers, Sapone adopted the company-wide policy of hiring all Alfred staff as W2 employees. Sapone has worked with the U.S. Department of Labor and the White House under the administration of President Barack Obama, as well as The Brookings Institute and The Aspen Institute's Economic Opportunities and Financial Security Program, to advance these efforts of economic security for the future of employment. Along with Alfred's Co-Founder, Jess Beck, Sapone supports founders who want to live more consciously through WHITESPACE Ventures, a seed investment firm focused on design-led tech for better business.  Named one of Goldman Sachs's “most intriguing entrepreneurs,” Sapone writes and speaks frequently on principled leadership, human-centered technology, and her commitment to being a steward of good jobs and meaningful change. Her writing has appeared in Forbes, Quartz, and Recode, among other highly reputable publications. She has been included in Fast Company's Most Creative People list, featured as the face of Consumer Tech in Forbes 30 Under 30, and was also a winner of Connect Media's Women in Real Estate Award in 2021. Sapone serves on the Norwalk Zoning Commission, where she supports initiatives and creates opportunities for urban development and growth. Sapone earned her BA from Boston University and holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.  Alfred  Operating at the intersection of real estate and technology, Alfred is the leading resident experience building management platform that is changing the way we live. Founded in 2014 by Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck, Alfred's mission is clear: to create an industry shift in real estate, transforming renters into residents and apartment properties into neighbourhoods. Named by Fast Company as one of the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World, Alfred has been recognized as a leader in the on-demand and in-home economy, investing in the local ecosystems and neighbourhood businesses that give meaning to our communities. Alfred to date operates in over 135,000 residential units in 44 markets across the U.S. and Canada through strategic partnerships with international real-estate operators, such as Brookfield, Hines, Related, RXR, Greystar and Jamestown. To learn more, visit www.helloalfred.com. About Our Host Louisa Dickins Louisa is the co-founder of LMRE, which has rapidly become the market leading global PropTech recruitment platform and search consultancy with operations across North America, United Kingdom, Europe and Asia-Pacific. To promote the industry she is so passionate about, Louisa set up the Global podcast ‘The Propcast' where she hosts and invites guests from the built environment space to join her in conversation about innovation. About LMRE LMRE is globally recognised for leading the way in Real Estate Tech & Innovation talent management. From the outset our vision was to become a global provider of the very best strategic talent to the most innovative organisations in PropTech, ConTech, Smart Buildings, ESG, Sustainability and Strategic Consulting. At LMRE we are fully committed at all times to exceed the expectations of our candidates and clients by providing the very best advice and by unlocking exclusive opportunities across our global network in the UK, Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. Timestamps: [02:10] Marcela: How did Alfred come about and how did you meet?  I went to Harvard Business School and ended up sitting next to Jessica, we were both working 90-100 hour weeks.  Our objective, both as individuals and personally, was to figure out if it would be possible to start our own adventure, build our own business and to find a co-founder.  Our question was, “How can we enable women to stay in the workforce longer?”  Our solution was, “Could we create a business that would put groceries in your fridge, dry-cleaning your closet, packages on your counter and have everything you ever needed at the tap of the button. And could that be included in our rent?”  [05:40] Jessica: In which city did this all begin?  We were one of the few consumer companies that originated in Boston as we were still students.  We opened our next market in New York. We have scaled to Canada and now we are in 52 cities.  [07:25] Marcela: Can you tell us more about the product?  We focus on the largest category and asset class in the world, which is housing and we are making it digital.  We take technology and we take a resident first, very consumer perspective and we are disrupting the way that traditional property management happens in multifamily and single family build-to-rent communities. At your fingertips is an application that allows you to buy services, to pay your rent, to book amenities, to book the Peloton, to book the workspace, to complain about something going wrong in your apartment and to request your packages to be delivered to your front door. [10:05] Jessica: How did you go about bringing on your first massive client? Our approach in working with the industry and gaining our first customers was really one of partnering. Our first big customer was Related Rentals.  My advice to founders would be; it does take time but if you build a relationship and you go building by building one building to ten buildings, you not only build a great relationship, but you actually get to build a great product and you get to learn and work with your customers to bring something to market. We always took a partnership oriented, consultative approach.  [12:05] Marcela: What are the major trends you have seen between Boston or New York in terms of what a resident is looking for. In Boston and New York, one of our biggest categories in the service marketplace in terms of time-saving service, was dry cleaning. But in San Francisco, you have absolutely no dry cleaning, and in Texas pet care was our largest category. In the last three to five years while we've been building the business, there's been a tremendous amount of change in the industry. [15:10] Jessica: What was the reasoning behind acquiring a property management company?  One of the things that we learned along the journey is if you really want to change how people live and you want to do it past the front door of their home, you need to be much more connected than you would guess. We realised in order to really deliver the product, we had to become much more integrated into building operations to create an end to end user experience and to deliver on top of that platform, you need to have a consolidation. We learned that in this space, there's so much fragmentation.  [21:15] Jessica: How long on average does a resident stay in an apartment? The average in the US, for annual churn in a property is about 45 - 50% a year and as a consumer business that means there is a lot of opportunity. What we've found is when you put a community in a building and residents start to participate and their lifestyle starts to get automated they end up staying longer.  In properties where we've been operating for some time, we've increased the  renewal rates for our partners by 5-10%.  [24:25] Marcela: Any advice you can give to other female founders? We try to ignore the fact that we're female founders, we would never do female only panels or raise and go out and say, “Female led companies raising X amount.” Focus on the business and the fundamentals of the business.  Have an extreme level of patience and a level of acceptance. Jessica: Being a founder is hard so find a good support system.  [27:55] Marcela/Jessica: How do you support your growing team as well as retain employees?  All of us on the planet are at a point where we're taking a big step back to evaluate our choices. There's been a reshuffling of where people are putting their energy and the careers they want to be in. One thing that is extremely clear is that connecting back to your mission and having an incredibly clear set of values as well as being as radically transparent.  Being empathetic and personal with each member of your team and understanding their goals.  [31:40] Marcela: What is next for Alfred?  Slowly and steadily continually leading the category forward to become the leading brand in residential real estate as well as work with our stakeholders to move the industry forward.  Continuing to add value to all of our customers [34:15] The ‘LMRE' part, Louisa asks the guests to talk about;  L – Touch on the main lessons you have learnt throughout your career. Marcela: First things first and one line to do lists.  Jessica:  When you're a founder, you're kind of the captain of a ship and you see calm seas and stormy seas but you are always in both.  M - Please give a mention to anyone / product / service. Marcela: John Fagan, Co-founder & CEO at doorkee. Jessica: Our whole team. R – What has been the most rewarding aspect of working in PropTech? Marcela:  We're taking things from a piece of paper and turning them into something that you can engage with and interact with.  Jessica: Echo what Marcela said.  E - What are you excited about in the future of PropTech? Marcela:  Getting through 2022 and 2023 and being able to reflect back and be proud of making it through a pretty challenging market with lots of ups and downs and twists. Jessica: Keep pushing the envelope in the industry.  [36:05] Jessica: Are there any plans to come to Europe?  100% Yes Sponsors Launch Your Own Podcast Kopus.com is the leading podcast production and strategic content company for brands, organisations, institutions, individuals, and entrepreneurs. Our team sets you up with the right strategy, equipment, training, and guidance and content to ensure you sound amazing while speaking to your niche audience and networking with your perfect clients. Get in touch jason@kopus.com

MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY / CLASSIC EPISODE FROM NOVEMBER 18, 2021 --On the Show: --Geoffrey West, theoretical physicist and professor at the Sante Fe Institute, joins David to discuss his book Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies. Get the book: https://amzn.to/30L0Ytg --Jacob Chansley, known as the "Q-Anon Shaman" from the January 6 Trump riots, is sentenced to 41 months in prison --Polish nationalists shout "death to Jews" while burning books about Jews at a rally --Notable discussions from the David Pakman Show subreddit, including about the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, Hatriot Mail, and more --The FBI raids the home of Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's former campaign manager, Tina Peters, in what doesn't look like an auspicious situation for anyone involved --Lunatic anti-vaccine osteopathic doctor Sherri Tenpenny delivers an insane rant at the "Re-Awaken America" rally where she says vaccinating children against COVID is a "late term abortion" --Bruce Schroeder, the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, tells a story about when "a black" was in a jury for one of his trials --Possibly the most xenophobic voicemail that we've ever received --On the Bonus Show: Republican Paul Gosar censured over AOC anime video, Republican-backed bill would decriminalize marijuana, investigating high gas prices, much more...

welcome to the nonlinear library, where we use text-to-speech software to convert the best writing from the rationalist and ea communities into audio. this is: Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams, published by stefan.torges on the effective altruism forum. Write a Review Introduction This post tries to answer the question of what qualities make some research teams more effective than others. I was particularly interested in learning more about “disruptive” research teams, i.e. research teams that have an outsized impact on (1) the research landscape itself (e.g. by paving the way for new fields or establishing a new paradigm), and/or (2) society at large (e.g. by shaping technology or policy).[1] However, I expect the conclusions to be somewhat relevant for all research teams. Research seems to have become increasingly important within the effective altruism community. In the past few years, GPI was founded, FHI started growing significantly, and Open Phil is expanding its research capacity. Will MacAskill even called effective altruism a “research program”. From this perspective, we should be both interested in creating new fields of research, or at least substantially influencing existing ones, as well as impacting society. Acknowledgments: I did some of the research presented here as part of my work at the Berlin-based Effective Altruism Foundation (EAF), a research group and grantmaker dedicated to preventing suffering in the long-term future. Thanks to Jonas Vollmer, Jan Dirk Capelle, Max Daniel, and Alfredo Parra for valuable comments on an early draft of this post. Summary I looked at the two most comprehensive and rigorous academic studies on productive research teams I could find after a shallow review of the available literature (one literature review, Bland & Ruffin (1992), and one meta-analysis, Hülseger, Anderson & Salgado (2009)). Unfortunately, I could not find similarly comprehensive studies of disruptive research teams in particular. I complemented this with seven case studies of research teams I picked based on my own non-systematic judgment that they have been particularly disruptive. These are the RAND Corporation, the Sante Fe Institute, the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Bell Labs, Skunk Works, the Los Alamos Laboratory, and the partnership of Kahneman & Tversky. The following are my key findings based on this research: Particularly disruptive research teams always seem to contain a significant number of excellent researchers and even those who are not brilliant are very capable. Teams seem to benefit from cognitive diversity but not demographic diversity. Disruptive research teams seem to benefit from a purposeful vision that describes the kind of change they want to affect in the world. While more concrete goals are probably helpful, they seem difficult to set in this context. Leaders likely have an outsized impact on how productive and disruptive a research group is. In almost all cases, relevant research expertise seems to required for such a role. For some teams, a second administrative leadership role seems to be helpful for securing resources and managing external relationships. Research teams seem more likely to realize their full disruptive potential if the researchers do not have to do anything but research and have easy access to all the resources they need. Individual researchers in disruptive teams seem to thrive when given a large degree of autonomy, i.e., when they're allowed to pursue projects and collaborations as they see fit. Instead of imposing metrics or incentives, it seems to work best to give them considerable freedom to work outside of usual incentive structures. To facilitate internal communications outside of formal structures, teams seem to benefit from shared spaces that allow for these exchanges to occur. Establishing a shared physical space that encourages interaction seems to be most important. Psychological safety, i.e., the feeling that voicing contro...

--On the Show: --Geoffrey West, theoretical physicist and professor at the Sante Fe Institute, joins David to discuss his book Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies. Get the book: https://amzn.to/30L0Ytg --Jacob Chansley, known as the "Q-Anon Shaman" from the January 6 Trump riots, is sentenced to 41 months in prison --Polish nationalists shout "death to Jews" while burning books about Jews at a rally --Notable discussions from the David Pakman Show subreddit, including about the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, Hatriot Mail, and more --The FBI raids the home of Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's former campaign manager, Tina Peters, in what doesn't look like an auspicious situation for anyone involved --Lunatic anti-vaccine osteopathic doctor Sherri Tenpenny delivers an insane rant at the "Re-Awaken America" rally where she says vaccinating children against COVID is a "late term abortion" --Bruce Schroeder, the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, tells a story about when "a black" was in a jury for one of his trials --Possibly the most xenophobic voicemail that we've ever received --On the Bonus Show: Republican Paul Gosar censured over AOC anime video, Republican-backed bill would decriminalize marijuana, investigating high gas prices, much more...

In Episode 31, Gregg welcomes Jim Rutt. He is the former CEO of Network Solutions and served as Chairman of the Sante Fe Institute from 2009 thru 2012. He is a futurist and leading thinker who is well-known in this space for his podcast and playing a founding role in "Game B." In this episode, Jim Rutt shares his narrative and tells the story of the emergence of Game B. He also discusses his upcoming book, and he and Gregg riff on the relationship and synergy between Game B and UTOK, such that the 5th Joint Point can be framed as "UTOKing Game B".  Here is the episode on podbean: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t3p46-10fe8c2 Here is his podcast, the Jim Rutt Show:  https://www.jimruttshow.com/ Here is the Game B Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gamebcore/ and the Game-B Homepage: https://www.game-b.org/

Surfer of the liminal, Michael Garfield is helping to articulate our emergent planetary culture and integrate art, science, and philosophy in a new way suited to our accelerating age. He hosts the Future Fossils podcast, mapping our place in the landscape of deep time, and the Sante Fe Institute's Complexity podcast, as is an artist and musician. In this episode:(00:00) — Episode begins(00:45) — Michael Garfield bootcamp(04:53) — Time-space synesthesia(08:54) — Corporatization of the natural(28:43) — "The incentive structures of society are misaligned with the incentives of individuals."(38:28) — Scaling laws of life and society(46:12) — Be open to the unknown or perish(1:04:35) — Tokenization of everything and the inability to quantify value(1:12:06) — "Story is the active ingredient in epistemology"(1:24:10)— "The truth owes you jack"(1:29:10) — The Century of the Self & Values > Incentives(1:43:20) — "I'll probably ruin your entire company," the need for dissentersEPISODE LINKS:Michael's Links:Michael on TwitterFuture Fossils PodcastMichael's writingMichael's ArtMichael's Santa Fe Institute pageSanta Fe Institute's COMPLEXITY Podcast Books:Kevin Kelly: What Technology WantsMetaphors We Live By Schooling in Capitalist America, Samuel BowlesThe Moral Economy, Samuel BowlesDemocracy: The God That FailedJoseph Heinrich, The WEIRDest People in The WorldOther Links:Cory Doctorow: Terra Nulliushttps://www.nextnature.net/Long Now FoundationWeird Studies PodcastOn Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David KrakauerWill a Complex System be Stable? Robert MayComplexity Podcast: Katherine Collins on Better Investing Through BiomimicryEconomics in Nouns and Verbs, W. Brian ArthurDaniel Bassett, Networks Thinking ThemselvesInformation and Signs the Language of Images The coming battle for the COVID-19 narrative, Samuel BowlesTerence McKenna on Philip K. DickIDEAMARKET LINKS:IdeamarketTwitterApple PodcastsSpotifyDiscord—The Ideamarket Podcast is where venture philosophers share the ideas, trends, and concepts they're most bullish on.—About Ideamarket:Ideamarket is the credibility layer of the internet. Ideamarket allows the public to mainstream the world's best information using market signals, replacing media corporations as arbiter of credibility.Get started now.

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Jim Rutt is one of the original internet entrepreneurs, building, improving and selling multiple companies including the juggernaut Network Solutions.  Vance Crowe and Jim Rutt spoke about why his 30,000 member group was temporarily kicked off of Facebook, the social media archipelago that is emerging as a result of social media censorship and Jim's push to create Game B an opportunity to re-imagine how human beings work, live and raise their children.  Jim and Vance discuss the Santa Fe Institute, the role of censorship going forward and his view of how long it will take to make the world adapt to a different way of thinking. Hierarchy in the Forest — https://amzn.to/3avNxOTJim's Podcast — https://www.jimruttshow.com/Game B Facebook page — https://www.facebook.com/groups/gamebcore0:00 Start0:11 Why did the Chairman of the Sante Fe Institute get booted from Facebook?13:17 Who is Jim Rutt?21:50 What is The Well? Well.com25:43 Vance's Stuart Brand Story28:52 What is Complexity?32:30 Stepping back from Nihilism36:26 What is GameB?44:27 Status signaling in human behavior52:34 How much do salary employees really work?56:06 How to get involved in GameB57:10 Listen to Jim Rutt's PodcastSubscribe to the podcast for email notifications on new episodes, invites to events and other exclusive content — http://eepurl.com/gSTfk5About the Vance Crowe Podcast — Vance Crowe interviews people with an expertise that you would want to know about, but might not think to ask. He prompts his guests to think about their work in novel ways, discusses how it applies to regular people and has fun sharing stories and experiences.Want to support the podcast?  https://ratethispodcast.com/vcpJoin the Articulate Ventures Network | https://network.articulate.ventures/ —We are a patchwork of thinkers that want to articulate ideas in a forum where they can be respectfully challenged, improved and celebrated so that we can explore complex subjects, learn from those we disagree with and achieve our personal & professional goals.Contact Vance for a Talk | https://www.vancecrowe.com/ —Vance delivers speeches that reveal important aspects of human communication.  Audiences are entertained, engaged, and leave feeling empowered to change something about the way they are communicating.  Vance tells stories about his own experiences, discusses theories in ways that make them relatable and highlights interesting people, books, and media that the audience can learn even more from. Join the #ATCF Book Club | https://articulate.ventures/category/atcf-book-club

Michael Mauboussin is the author of The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing, Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, and More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places. Michael is currently Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global. Michael has also held roles as Director of Research at BlueMountain Capital Management, he was a Managing Director and Head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, and he was Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management.  Mr. Mauboussin has been an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School since 1993 and currently is Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Sante Fe Institute. Michael's Episode Notes  Checkout my Newsletter Connect with us! Whatgotyouthere MCTco Collagen Protein Bars www.mctco.com 20% off with code “WGYT” http://michaelmauboussin.com/ Michael’s Books The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing  More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition   Michael’s Investing Essay’s

In this year’s Simonyi Lecture Geoffrey West discusses universal laws that govern everything from growth to mortality in plants, animals, cities and companies. These remarkable laws originate in the networks that sustain life from circulatory to social systems and help us address big, urgent questions from population explosion, urbanization, lifespan and cancer, to the accelerating pace of life and global sustainability. Why do we stop growing and live about 100 years rather than 1000, or just two like mice? Why do we sleep eight hours a day and not three like elephants? Why do all companies and people die whereas cities keep growing? How are these related to innovation, wealth creation, and “singularities”? And is any of this sustainable? Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics, biology and social organizations  West is a distinguished professor at the Sante Fe Institute, where he served as the president from 2004-2008. He is author of the recent best-selling book, Scale.

Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics and biology. He is a Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a distinguished professor at the Sante Fe Institute, where he served as the president from 2005-2009. In 2006 he was named to Time’s list of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World.” He is the author of Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies.

Today is another mega eclectic episode featuring Douglas Emlen, Toby Crabel, Robert Aumann, Ryan Holiday, Sally Hogshead and Michael Mauboussin. Douglas Emlen is a professor at the University of Montana. He is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. He has also earned multiple research awards from the National Science Foundation, including their five-year CAREER award. Toby Crabel is founder of Crabel Capital Management. His approach is very different from Covel’s, but there are some commonalities: price action driven, systems, models, risk management. Crabel works on a whole different timeframe than the typical trend follower, typically turning his portfolio over in less than a day. Crabel, a former pro tennis player, has a philosophical nature and discusses how he executes these philosophies in the trading world. Robert Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Aumann is the 4th Nobel Prize Laureate in economics to be a guest on the podcast. Ryan Holiday is an American author, writer, and marketer. He is the media strategist behind authors Tucker Max and Robert Greene, the former Director of Marketing for American Apparel and an editor-at-large for the New York Observer. Sally Hogshead is an American speaker, author, former advertising executive, as well as the Chief Executive Officer of Fascinate, Inc. Hogshead’s newest book is “How The World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through The Science of Fascination.” Michael Mauboussin is an author, investment strategist in the financial services industry, professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Business, and serves on the board of trustees at the Sante Fe Institute (an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute). He is managing director and head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, where he advises clients on valuation and portfolio positioning, capital markets theory, competitive strategy analysis, and decision making. In this episode of Trend Following Radio: Humans and animals International hacking Game theory Economics World champions of peace The book writing process Flow state Personal branding Multi-disciplinary thinking Luck vs. Skill Outcome bias

My guest today is Michael Mauboussin, an investment strategist in the financial services industry, professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Business, and serves on the board of trustees at the Sante Fe Institute (an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute). He is managing director and head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, where he advises clients on valuation and portfolio positioning, capital markets theory, competitive strategy analysis, and decision making. The topics are his books More Than You Know and Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Multi-disciplinary thinking and its influence on Covel Looking at larger reference classes The Swiss Franc Mauboussin's personal take on the recent oil move Fundamentals and expectation Luck or skill when it comes to trading profits The paradox of skill, absolute, and relative skill Whether scientific principles of luck exist Defining luck utcome bias The general public perception of behavioral economics Jump in! --- I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/ You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/ Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast My social media platforms: Twitter: @covel Facebook: @trendfollowing LinkedIn: @covel Instagram: @mikecovel Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Michael Covel speaks with Michael Mauboussin today on his second visit to the podcast. Mauboussin is an author ("More Than You Know", "Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition"), investment strategist in the financial services industry, professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Business, and serves on the board of trustees at the Sante Fe Institute (an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute). He is managing director and head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, where he advises clients on valuation and portfolio positioning, capital markets theory, competitive strategy analysis, and decision making. Covel and Mauboussin discuss multi-disciplinary thinking and its influence on Covel; looking at larger reference classes; the Swiss Franc; Mauboussin’s personal take on the recent oil move; fundamentals and expectation; luck or skill when it comes to trading profits; the paradox of skill, absolute, and relative skill; whether scientific principles of luck exist; defining luck; outcome bias; and the general public perception of behavioral economics. For more information on Michael Mauboussin, visit michaelmauboussin.com. Want a free trend following DVD? Go to trendfollowing.com/win.

On this Christmas episode, our theoretical physicist guest is Geoffrey West, Professor and former President of the Sante Fe Institute. We discuss his recent groundbreaking work in the world of biological and social complexity. In the last few years, the Professor has applied his high-energy atom smashing physics know-how, to the field of biology and came up with some startlingly general results, which give us deep insights into all sorts of things, from the life-expectancy of a mouse and the efficiency of cities, to the very nature of our social systems, and their limits. Astounding stuff.... Enjoy! PS The show is now on twitter.... the follow button is just over there on the left hand side of the web page. PPS A very merry Christmas to all you listeners.