Lindy Elkins-Tanton - Recognizing flourishing, leading teams, and an education for living

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Lindy Elkins-Tanton is one of the world's foremost scientists. Couple that with an unprecedented understanding of how teams work and a sense of care that is exceedingly rare in our world and you recognize her for what she is: altogether unexampled. Her's is a story of exploration, of universe, of planet, of society, and of self.
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Show Notes:

• Her memoir: A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman (04:40)
• A Feeling for the Organism by Fox Keller (11:40)
• Tronto and Fisher on an ethics of care (14:40)
• ongoingness and Danielle Allen (15:30)
• The Great Askers (Episode 1 on Origins and an essay) (23:00)
• Rubric for assessing the excellence of questions (24:15)
• Psyche mission (26:00)
• The Science of Team Science (26:30)
• The Interplanetary Initiative at Arizona State (44:00)
• Worldbuilding and NK Jemisin (47:00)
• Dawnby Octavia Butler (47:20)
• Lightning Round (49:20)
  • Book: The Captive Mindby Czesław Miłosz
  • Passion: living and working with animals
  • Heart sing: photographing and mosaicking
  • Screwed up: early relationships
• Find Lindy online:
  • https://lindyelkinstanton.com/
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
  • Lindy’s playlist

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