Catching the Next Wave

When we started this season about magic, we had no clue where it could take us. Actually, we had little clue of what magic meant in the first place. With our guests of Season 5 we had the great pleasure to look at magic from the perspective of an artist, designer, teacher, leader, and magician. And you might be surprised how much of it can be applied to both our personal and professional lives. We hope you will enjoy it as much as we did.

There is plenty of stuff that should be common sense but it isn't. In this episode, Gus Power rants about many of such things: from abusing agile principles, through pretending to be aligned, to the misjudgments that stem from the ladder of inference. We tap into the topics of employee motivation, the innovation trap and also the phenomenon of weak consensus every organization on this planet should be aware of. You are up for a ride with this conversation.

IMPORTANT LINKS

Jeffrey Liker “The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer”

Richard Michael Cyert ,James G. March “A Behavioral Theory of the Firm”

Donald A. Schon “The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action”

Kenichi Ohmae “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”

Larry Keeley, Helen Walters, Ryan Pikkel, Brian Quinn “Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs”

Chris Argyris “Teaching Smart People How to Learn”

Chris Argyris “Flawed Advice and the Management Trap: How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not“

Hugh MacLeod “Company Hierarchy”

John Gall “The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small”

Is Big Data able to take decisions for us, humans? In this episode, we talk to the Big Data expert from nPowered, Piotr Jegier about the traps that many of us will encounter as we start to rely more any more on data. We dive into the topic of cognitive biases and try to understand in what domains humans still can't be replaced by AI.

IMPORTANT LINKS

nPowered - what we do

Piotr's twitter

Flat Earthers' documentary - BEHIND THE CURVE | Official HD Trailer (2018) | DOCUMENTARY | Film Threat Trailers (YT)
Things that correlate, but that does not really mean anything (Spurious Correlations by Tyler Vigen)

The software that helps judges make bail decisions, which does not like black people

John Cleese on Creativity, including open vs. closed mode (YT)

Modern portfolio theory, ie. making sure your many mistakes of forecasting compensate each other (Wikipedia)

Traveling Wilburys, the supergroup and the history behind their name

An article on The Butterfly Effect and Edward Lorenz's contribution to the Chaos Theory

On the often-discussed death of strategy in business in these turbulent times - IMD: Strategy is dead? Long live strategic thinking!. Diagnostics, alternatives and choice By Emeritus Professor Paul Strebel

An interesting article on what you might make when you do strategy, includes the strategy statement and the strategic sweet spot: - Can You Say What Your Strategy Is? by David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad

Comments by the CEO of T-Mobile Poland on "turning the tanker around"

Ethics and addiction in tech product design: How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist, by Tristan Harris

What is the Turing Test? (a short video from Cnet on YT)

On the General AI and the control problem (YT) - Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris (TED)

Confirmation Bias - a good intro by Shahram Heshmat Ph.D. on Psychology Today

A Vox article outlining the work of Dan Kahan on how the (politically) motivated reasoning makes us stupid, and how scientific curiosity can counteract this effect

A place where you can learn more on Open Science movement and pre-register your research hypotheses - Center for Open Science - preregister your hypotheses

AI Control Problem (Wikipedia)

An episode of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast, "The Destroyer of Worlds" on the difficult and risky early years of the nuclear cold war on Earth

A selection of 10 particularly non-obvious "For Dummies" books

An inspiring introduction and overview of Getting Things Done method (and book) by its creator, David Allen, on Google Tech Talks

An accessible and irreverent discussion of the Extended Mind article by Andy Clark and David Chalmers and the distributed cognition concept, on the Very Bad Wizards podcast

Peter Thiel's favorite job interview question, as written up by Quartz

The original article on the primacy and precedence of (moral) emotions compared to re...

Sometimes we all ask ourselves this very question: is common sense all that common? In this fourth season of the Catching The Next Wave podcast we hope to investigate what common sense really means and whether it is something that should be generally popular. ...or perhaps not really...

Important links

Nassim Nicholas Taleb “Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder”

Have you ever imagined yourself being a guest at the Mad Hatter tea party from Alice in Wonderland? Our guest, Flemming Ottsen, can make it a reality. In this conversation we talk about switching from engineering and product management to performance. We explore the world of immersive theater, the importance of meditation and the ego work. We also cross a border we never imagined to cross on this podcast - we discuss the potential positive impact of psychedelics.

Important links

The Flyingfox Entertainment

“The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes” by Steven Pinker

Bill Gates Newsletter