James Evans' life is one resplendent with ideas. His trajectory into research and learning in areas as wide as network science, collective intelligence, computational social science, and even how knowledge is created, is as irreducible as it is exhilarating, and is a beacon in disorienting times marked by seemingly accelerating paces of change.
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Show Notes:
- cultural and knowledge observatories (05:30)
- Mark Granovetter (09:15)
- Steve Barley (10:30)
- Woody Powell (10:30)
- Chris Summerfield (11:00)
- Some papers mentioned:
- Abduction (21:30)
- epistemic space (22:40)
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (24:20)
- Clifford Geertz (24:30)
- "Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations" Obermeyer et al. (30:00)
- Scarcity Sendhil Mullainathan (35:00)
- The Knowledge Lab (36:00)
- "Quantifying the dynamics of failure across science, startups and security" Yin et al. (45:00)
- Charles Sanders Peirce (51:00)
- Pirkei Avot (56:00)
- Alison Gopnik on explore-exploit (01:02:30)
- Elise Boulding "the 200-year present" (01:03:00)
- Jo Guldi (01:06:00)
- Lightning Round (01:06:30):
- Book: The Enigma of Reason
- Passion: physical exploration and spiritual calling
- Heart sing: 'social science fiction' and Hod Lipson
- Screwed up: management style at times
- James online:
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
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