Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Show Notes :  Christine Atha (10:30)  “ Dropping bombs on the landscape ” (13:30)   Land art (14:30)   Michael Heizer “Displaced Replaced Mass” (16:10)   Is this art? (19:00)   Take out the human completely, take out what it means to anybody and try to imagine this thing existing on its own (21:00)   Imagine what it means to be the object, to be the force (21:20)   How chaos and order is an analog...

Show Notes :  Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (2:11)  IEEE Computer Society 2019 W. Wallace McDowell Award (3:30)  “Trying to do things in the wrong way” and having an internal compass to know when to redirect oneself (4:45)  Responding to how you are being seen (5:30)  Contradiction a deeply personal experience and growing comfortable with ambiguity (7:30)  Reasoning through uncertainty (7:45) ...

Show Notes :  The SETI Institute (1:15 and 6:10)  FDL program ( NASA Frontier Development Lab ) (4:30 and 36:00)  Jesuit thinking (5:00)  Brother Guy J. Consolmagno (6:20)  Take advantage of the breadth of knowledge available to you and cut across the boundaries of knowledge (7:30)  Early mentor, Ken Nill , and how he altered Bill’s trajectory (12:00)  Value of having both technical and managerial...

Show Notes : Polar mission , Solar-Terrestrial Physics Science Initiative , Van Allen Probes mission , and Parker Solar Probe mission (01:05) NASA Heliophysics Division (01:20) Nicky at South by Southwest (03:20) Nicky on the TEDx stage (03:35) Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle (04:35) Solar energy effects on GNSS (06:50) Idea of assessing your presentations from the questions you receive (08:25) Powe...

Show Notes :  Andrés’ first website: “ a small trip through Columbian music ” (04:10)  Cosmos ( TV Show and Book ) by Carl Sagan (05:50)  Jesuit Ignatian spiritual retreats in reference to Ignatius Loyola (08:00 and 11:15)  How do you create space to listen to yourself? (13:30)  NASA Frontier Development Laboratory - FDL (15:51)  ‘ Deep Learning ’ (17:00)  What makes a team fail? (18:00)  Enhancin...

Show Notes:   Geodesics (12:40)  Booz Allen Hamilton (21:00)  Kirk ’surprised’ himself through the cognitive ability test at a job interview - the idea of surprising ourselves through exposing ourselves to new ideas (25:00)  "Cognitive view of the whole, and not just a narrow silo’ed view - the bias buster” - systems thinking (26:40)  Underfitting and Overfitting (27:00)  Data Science : the a...

Show Notes:  Matt’s bands (1:30): Tiny Danza and RVNNERS   Being singularly focused versus pursuing multiple curiosities. Tim Ferriss blog on one way to think about this: Push vs. Pull Processes   Sonification (9:03)  TEDx talk University of Toronto (10:12)  Matt’s interaction with the six-year old fan of his work (11:00)  Matt discusses acting almost unconsciously during his TEDx talk because of...

Show Notes :  Apache Open Source Software Foundation (4:00)  Apache projects: Tika (26:30), Nutch (15:10), Hadoop (36:05)  Chris’ resume and the ‘web of activities’ (7:15) “It’s all got to relate to one another”-Chris (7:15)  Tim Ferriss’ scratch your own itch “JPL” (8:05) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory USC ’ systems perspective ’ (8:25)  ‘ Architect software ’ (8:35)  ‘Big software systems ’ (8:5...

Show Notes :  Kerry’s quilt kickstarter (~3:00) Vipassanā mediation/retreats (~5:30)  Sitting practice meditation (~12:55)  We discuss morning routines and I’m a complete nerd for people’s routines - here are a few examples of morning routines from other thought-leaders (~14:40)  Sam Harris morning guided meditation (~17:05)  Julia Cameron The Artist’s Way (~22:00)  Sam Harris guided meditation ap...

Origins are conversations with thought-leaders across an eclectic mix of disciplines (science, engineering, art, and design), crafted specifically for the category-defying society that we live in. Listen to the trailer now!

Show Notes :  STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) mission: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/main/index.html Living With a Star Program: https://lws.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Jack Eddy: https://aas.org/obituaries/john-allen-eddy-1931-2009 The Jack Eddy Fellowship: https://cpaess.ucar.edu/heliophysics/jack-eddy What is Heliophysics? (4:45 & 38:00) https://science.nasa.gov/heliophysics...

Show Notes :  Work-Life balance vs. alignment (7:00)  Link to follow-up on: https://bit.ly/2SnMPIz TED talk about the silent man (31:30): John Francis ( https://www.ted.com/talks/john_francis_walks_the_earth?language=en )  We talk a lot about being quiet and the various forms and meanings of that. Here’s a link to a TED Radio Hour episode about ‘Quiet’: https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/...

Show Notes :  The Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Network (CHAIN) - http://chain.physics.unb.ca/chain/ Jay’s research group:  http://radio.physics.unb.ca/jayachandran/ Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumba_Equatorial_Rocket_Launching_Station Books mentioned:  Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!    ...