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Navigating Complexity

Look at wicked problems through a multifaceted lens, with humility and an open mind

Apotheosis episode 29: How to see like a bat. We don't actually see the world as it is, but rather we see an image of the world generated by our brains.

Episode 29: How to see like a bat

Episode 14: A machine for jumping to conclusions. “The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.” ~Daniel Kahneman

Episode 14: A machine for jumping to conclusions

Episode 13: Survival of the brainiest. Our brains evolved due to specific evolutionary pressures that were relatively consistent over millions of years. Those pressures have changed.

Episode 13: Survival of the brainiest

Episode 12: From the Big Bang to Big Problems. To understand the present, we must understand the past. The field of Big History looks WAY back, tracing a path from the Big Bang to shine light on complex problems of today.

Episode 12: From the Big Bang to Big Problems

Episode 11: Taoism, part 2: Doing non-doing. "The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action." ~Tao Te Ching, verse 43

Episode 11: Taoism, Part 2: Doing non-doing

Episode 10: Taoism - You don't know me! Some things cannot be known or measured. Focusing only on "knowable objects" comes with the risk of losing touch with the unknowable mysteries at the heart of our existence.

Episode 10: Taoism: “You don’t know me!”

Episode 9: Indra's net and wicked problems. Quote: "...there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper."

Episode 9: Indra’s Net and wicked problems

Episode 8: Navigating complex problems. There are no easy answers to humanity's wicked problems. Looking through a multifaceted lens with humility and an open mind can shine some light on potential solutions.

Episode 8: Navigating complex problems