DangerMouth: The Innovation Station

Dangermouth strays into the danger zone and attempts to find a fresh take on deliberating the desireable outcome for the 2024 election. Darrell joins Shana on location in the USA for this episode. References The Third Way Podcast: Audrey Tand and Digital Citizen Assemblies A time of revolution Book: The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788–1800 Podcast: Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate

The rediscovery and painstaking restoration of Aristotle's Poetics revealed a lost method of literary theory, seeing literature as a progression of innovations. Wordmaster John Reel joins Darrell and Mikey to examine the "and" and "but" of the creative process. Wonderworks: Literary invention and the science of stories My Half Orange: A Story of Love and Language in Seville

Instinct is potentially a highly powerful creative tool, one that is largely shunned in western society as it is hard to define, tricky to measure and like AI no one really knows what is going on inside the box. Shana, Darrell and Mikey try to pin down the jello. Darrell thinks he has the answer, Mikey knows he has and Shana provides a grounding dose of reality.   Links Instinct EZine The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

Comedy is innovation in real time. Professor of Comedy Emma Holmes and Drama Queen Christine van Asselt give Darrell and Mikey lessons in laughter. It's a funny business!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hflp9tE0Iww https://www.linkedin.com/company/eeh-productions/about/

In this episode Darrell and Mikey are joined by special guest Steve Barbone, Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University. Together we wrestle to get the right mix between romantic and classical, art and science, sense and nonsense as we tweak the carburettor of philosophy. Pure Quality. I wonder whether Robert Pirsig would have approved?

Paul Baxter approaches the world from his own unique perspective and has the showman's aptitude for storytelling. His homespun philosophy has produced startling innovations and enabled him to live life on his own terms. Mikey and Darrell relish the chance to converse with someone who Darrell refers to as a force of nature.   ASK the BAXTER: How To Think Clearly and Answer Big Questions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugll6jrnOkA   The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology Is Transforming Business, Politics and Society by Azeem Akbar

In 1997 the book ‘The Fourth Turning’ laid out a controversial theory that history is driven by a four phase generational cycle. This compelling theory has influenced a wide range of people from Al Gore to Steve Bannon. In this episode, our guest Janne Miettine, puts forward a strong case that cyclical hormone levels drive societal behaviour and are the mechanism behind the phase changes. Janne has the courage to go against the grain, and the determination and aptitude to sweat the details, the hallmarks of the pioneer that challenges the smug status quo.   https://jannemiettinen.fi/FourthTurning/#htoc-1-3-cyclical-human-populations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory

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/

In a spookily prescient example, London Underground and a nesting plover conspire to derail this episode, but the show does go on.   Darrell and an epically deranged Mikey are joined by Shana and Olly the Jolly to discuss how an understanding of complexity should alter the way you behave.   I think we have unfinished business!   Special thanks to Paul Wilkinson for knocking this verbal spaghetti into a wonderful Podcast.

Many people are so busy chasing their tails they can't see the way off the hamster wheel. That's where Electra comes in. Coming from the world of corporate law, where cross fertilization of ideas illuminates the way forward, Electra has the smarts and the people skills to make change happen. In this episode Electra shares her stories and Darrell finds many parallel with his heroes journey.

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

Back in 2023 I crash landed my kayak onto Great Blasket Island, perched out on the far-flung edge of Western Europe. Luckily for me I was swept up by Emily "The Caretaker". Darrell and I chat to Emily and Dan about what they learned and how they see the future. Daily Mail Daily Mirror TV Show Certified: Contradiction Free (He He)

Mikey and Darrell chat with the creative writer, cabinet maker and refugee from the Midlands William Draycott. Resident of the ancient town of Bodmin in Cornwall's brooding moorlands. The theme is stories. But you know how it goes by now. Links We are Systematic Innovation  The only innovation company on the planet Cornish Cabinet and Joinery Co

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An erudite Darrell, augmented by Shana's cookies of wisdom, lay out the 6 components of strategy for all to see. Mikey tries his best but cannot quite derail the process. Links: Definition of Strategy (SIG,OST)    Winners and How They Succeed 1. Complexity   Extreme Ownership   Zone to Win 2. S-Curve   Jumping the S-Curve 3. Directionality 4. Contradictions 5. Immutability 6. Measure whats Important

Notes from the Innovation coalface; from our guest Costas Papaikonomou who has been there and got the T-Shirt. Costas also gives advice on investing in eco startups and insights into how often super intelligent people skip the fundamentals and waste brainpower on irrelevant detail. Also; another annoying example of how the Dutch speak English better than the English. About Costas https://www.linkedin.com/in/costaspapaikonomou https://grumpyinnovator.gumroad.com/   The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies