Darrell and Mikey welcome John Gallacher, Director of Dementias Platform UK (DPUK), for a deeply satisfying conversation.

John is driving a global movement to bring economies of scale to the acquisition and storage of quality data, and its distribution and use for public benefit.

John embodies the foundational principles of a horizontal thinker; big picture long term thinking, spanning silos, wrestling with complex systems and leadership, to name but a few.

More than that, he is an expert in the aesthetics of kayak design, so it's well worth a listen.

Links:

https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/team/john-gallacher

https://www.dementiasplatform.uk/

Mikey and Darrell welcome word wizard, educator and intellectual John Reel, the New Yorker in Seville.

We discuss how it takes a hero to make a breakthrough journey and have the audacity to create a work of art when the mountain of history is fiercely guarded by the reputations of giants.

And much, much more.

My Half Orange: A Story of Love and Language in Seville https://amzn.eu/d/gWeTjFS

https://johnjuliusreel.com/

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1 (PENGUIN CLASSICS) https://amzn.eu/d/3vWlwNd

Ulysses (Wordsworth Classics) https://amzn.eu/d/0EeddBR

The Prodigal Son, by George Balanchine, with Mijaíl Barýshnikov

The performance is about 40 minutes long, but it’s broken up into four parts.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/T-TUCK3scdc?si=W7yQJtBVDFB3Ccmi

Part 2: https://youtu.be/RAzcsAIP8Hg?si=PMp_QlcVpKwGrpHB

Part 3: https://youtu.be/Hn5xzJzVgos?si=nCmkOce4bTaXZylv

Part 4: https://youtu.be/VkN4lNDlKG8?si=cmZbeijYqMhynu2J

Mikey tries to reveal the team's inner mindscape. Darrell relates it to innovation and Shana is in her happy place. Mikey reveals how he came to get stuck in a tree.

Thinking Fast and Slow

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow

How to Know a Person

https://youtu.be/YwENbKn3tqI?si=fEvNFKSGlVLFffxp

Special guest Olly Buxton (A.K.A. "The Jolly Contrarian") leads Mikey and Darrell through the ossified entrails of the Legal Establishment in our first outing into its echoing dusty halls. The Law is an edifice so vast, so powerful and so ancient that waves of changes bounce ineffectually off its granite walls.

Even granite does not last forever.

Rest assured that despite the dark tones of formality, we remain steadfastly jolly throughout.

Olly is as well read as Darrell (i.e. off the scale) and is an excellent font of future enlightening tomes.

Refs:

https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=Seeing_Like_a_State James C Scott's Seeing Like a State

https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=Systemantics:_The_Systems_Bible John Gall’s Systemantics: the Systems Bible which is absolutely hilarious

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/09/ai-monkeys-paw/ Cory Doctorow on Generative AI and copyright

https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities Jane Jacobs on modernism

Rory Sutherland on Eurostar https://youtu.be/iueVZJVEmEs?t=373

Rory Sutherland's excellent book https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=Alchemy:_The_Surprising_Power_of_Ideas_that_Don%E2%80%99t_Make_Sense

This is the first episode where we delve into Darrell's 6 Pillars of Innovation Wisdom, focusing on Complex Systems.

We look at the 6 elements of a simple basic complete system before adding complexity into the mix.

We discuss the importance of leaders understanding their organisation as a system and how there is always a delta between the official hierarchy where accountability lies and the shadow hierarchy where the power lies.

Entrophy, authenticity, diversity vs expediency, lettuce vs leader.

In which Darrell tries to stop a closed system from becoming more random. How do you think that went?

You be the judge?

Dame Dash

Kochland

Lizz Vs Lecttuce