DangerMouth: The Innovation Station
The podcast that takes you on the long and dangerous journey from the siloed foothills of inventing things to the yawning abyss of reinventing society. Each week we take a subject related to innovation and set off on a verbal stroll to see what wonders unfold.
Episodes
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Episode 10: Ritual
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
We intended to have the theme of ritual and environment vs receptivity and and got lost in Bullet Ants, Mormons, Cookies, The Matrix, Immutibility, Soccer Referees and Stand Up Comedians. All the usual. There was some serious stuff hidden in the middle if you like that sort of thing. Something for everyone!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001wqlr
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Episode 9: Grit
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Stormy seas separate spark and success. 98% of innovations fail along the way.
Stormy seas are just one hurdle to overcome when paddling a kayak around a country.
Are there parallels? Lessons to learn?
Two veterans of the watery world, John Willacy and Jon Hynes share their hard-won insights.
John Willacy #33 - John Willacy - The Strategy of Speed
John Hynes Retro Trip #88 - Jon Hynes - Wild Atlantic Warrior
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Episode 8: Beyond Democracy
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Democracy is creaking at the seams. Is there a better system waiting in the wings?
Mikey and Darrell seek the Ideal Final Result!
Book: More from Less
Opinion: Minimun Viable Politician
Opinion: None of the Above
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Episode 7: Human Immutability
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Unchanging people in a changing world, why do change projects fail?
Darrell and Mikey are joined by anthro-complexity guru and cowgirl Shana Finnegan to help rope this tricky steer.
Book Referenced: Thinking In Systems: A Primer Donella H. Meadows,
"It could take years to learn this way of the world, but if you read this book you will learn this in hours. This book is not an engineering book and it is unfortunate that Donella gave it such a bland engineering-oriented name. This is a book of philosophy and life learnings. A book about complexity, written with Zen-style simplicity and brevity yet every word is packed with meaning. You read this book not because you want to learn about "systems" (who cares about that?!) but you want to learn about why things don't always work out the way you want them to." Jonathan Stanford Yu
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Episode 6 Part 2: Desert Island Disco with Guest Darrell Mann concluded
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Darrell has to pick which of the 8 tracks to take with him...
Track List
Right Off - Miles Davies
The Glowing Man - Swans
Somewhere Everywhere - Keith Jarrett (Trio)
Your Bright Baby Blues - Jackson Brown
First We Take Manhattan - Jennifer Warns, Stevie Ray
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Episode 6 Part 1: Desert Island Disco with Guest Darrell Mann
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Host Mikey delves in the life story of Darrell, finding out which music tracks he would like to take on his personal desert island.
Tracks
Man from Mars - from the soundtrack of the film Grace of My Heart, Kristen Vigard
Summertime in England - Van Morrison
The Rainbow - TalTalk
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Episode 5: The Plausibility Test - Plotting the end of Humanity
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
In which Mikey and Darrell try to come up with the storyline of a thriller, the next Times No. 1 Best Seller
Somewhere along the way, they lose the plot!
Who could have predicted this?
The Singularity Is Not Near
Haier’s self-evolving organization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_Great
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Episode 4: Systematic Innovation - Where's the Buzz?
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Darrell and Mikey try and fathom out the reasons that systematic innovation is not widely adopted in its time of need.
Mikeys law of cakes.
The Culture Wars explained in a new way.