Episode 28: Nora Bateson - Interconnectedness, warm data, and the vitality of things

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Show Notes:

• Small Arcs of Larger Circles (02:00)
• Objectivity (05:45)
• Relationships and interdependencies (07:00)
• Smiling with your whole system (10:00)
• Flip side of delight and seeing connections (11:00)
• Language developed from your own frustration (13:30)
  
  • Different kinds of teachers
• Esalen Institute (15:30)
• Diving more deeply into the arts and an exploration of culture (19:20)
• Working with different groupings of people (19:40)
• Describing things nonlinearly (20:30)
• 'Warm data' (23:50)
• Mutual learning between generations (27:00)
• ‘Change is when you throw away the ladder’ (28:00)
• Willingness to play and be wrong - inadequacy (30:00)
• New way of thinking and learning - Warm Data Labs (34:30)
  • Observe the observer
  • Multiple description
  • Fluid patterning
  • Paradox, inconsistency, time
  • Holism, reductionism
  • Cultural
  • Tone, texture, aesthetic
    
• Bertrand Russell logical typing
• 'Transcontextual aboutness' (47:00)
• Symmathesy (52:30)
• Morning routine (55:00)
• Elvis Costello - embodying visions for things (58:00)
• Julie Odell How to Do Nothing (01:00:00)
• Andrea Gibson poem Tincture (01:01:50)
• Lightning Round (01:04:00)
  • Book: Alice in Wonderland
  • Passion: The willingness of art and not knowing where it is going
  • Heart sing: New dog, Blake
  • Screwed up: Doing things just in time
• The reason to give is not because of what you will get for it
  • Tend vitality
• Find guest online:
  • Twitter: @NoraBateson
  • https://batesoninstitute.org/nora-bateson/
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
  • Guest’s playlist