DangerMouth: The Innovation Station

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
 
 
 
 

Special guest Kathleen (aka Trinity) tries to fathom out Darrell (Morpheus).
Will she take the Red Pill, the Blue Pill or bring out the Yellow Ribbon?
Links:
Kathleen Crandall

Darrell and his team have amassed 11.5 million cases in his quest for the 41st principle, what's the story?
AND; Why does Darrell rate Neil Ferguson and not Yuri Noah Harari.
Cape Cornwall
What got you here wont get you there
Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
TRENDNA Understanding populations better than they understand themselves.
 
 

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

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 

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

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

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